Construction-Grade Building Material Made Entirely From Recycled Plastic Waste
Is it true…can wasted (and often un-recyclable) plastic be used to help make the environment better? Everyone knows about the use of concrete blocks for making buildings, but there’s a company called ByFusion that created an innovative product called ByBlocks, where they use steam and wasted plastic to make durable building materials, and it’s helping to reshape the future of plastic waste and our world. They are pretty incredible building material and appear to be stronger than concrete, and they can be painted, torched, driven on, and basically take a lickin’ and keep on tickin’! Check out their short video for a sneak peak.
What are these recycled plastic blocks?
Each block weighs 22 pounds and is 16” x 8” x 8” and can be customized to specific densities. They don’t crack or crumble like concrete, and no glue is required to put them together. As far as off-gassing, they have 41% less greenhouse gas emission than concrete blocks. These ByBlocks can be used for all types of construction purposes such as retaining walls, sheds, fencing, landscaping and more.
So how are these blocks made?
The wasted and discarded plastic is collected. It is then shredded and heated and fused in what they call ByBlocks.
ByFusion has an impressive goal to recycle 100 million tons of plastic by 2030, and when you look at every pound that gets produced in these ByBlocks, thats less that goes into our landfill and environment. On top of that, they make machines that are for a community to use, as well as a company, so neighborhoods could literally start getting into recycling on a whole other level.
By the way, we’re not a paid advertiser for ByFusion, we just think what they’re doing is pretty great and hope you find this to be something beneficial for our world too. To learn more, please go here: ByFusion.
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