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All over the world, countries, companies, and people are turning trash into treasure. What starts as old milk cartons, tires, or seaweed becomes bricks, tiles, and boxes used for things such as paving roads and building homes. We went to places like Kenya, Nigeria, Mexico, and Thailand to see if garbage is the building material of the future.
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00:00 - Intro
00:33 - Young Inventor Makes Bricks From Plastic Trash
09:41 - One Nigerian Entrepreneur's Solution For Millions Of Old Tires
19:13 - How Bricks Made From Invasive Seaweed Clean Mexico's Beaches
27:15 - How Bricks Made From Milk Cartons Can Help Typhoon Victims
35:30 - How Bricks Are Made From Plastic Trash
43:40 - Credits
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@NoahBranch503 12 дней назад

It brings tears to my eyes to see this guy in Mexico talk about doing honest work and helping others thos is what we're supposed to be doing

@stormaggeden Месяц назад

Its so inspiring to see people working so hard to work with the plastic issue. Like they said its not a perfect fix, but works for now. Now we need to focus on banning plastic for good.

@AyupStuggy Месяц назад

Plastic is a fantastic material. The problem is what we do with it afterwards, the worst thing to do is to trash it.

@cnaizhen Месяц назад

Until a suitable replacement material has been found (cheap*, check all the various properties different plastics have), the focus has never been on banning plastics.

@sanniepstein4835 Месяц назад

Which plastic, in which role? Corian is a great invention.

@witchaponkitthaworn5998 2 дня назад

Most plastic is by-product of oil refinery, as long as we use oil, so the plastic.

@carlramirez6339 22 дня назад

4:55 "Roads are actually the primary source of microplastics in the environment" - and this ignores that the predominant way roads produce microplastics is not from the road itself but from tyres.

@69Emoji 2 месяца назад

Plankton thought we'd never get his grey chum recipe

@bodacious9777 17 дней назад

Hahahahahahahaha good one

@jadedrealist 2 месяца назад

Most of the pepple in these comments don't get it. The plastic would break down into microplastics no matter what, this is at least keeping some of the larger plastics (which again break down into microplastic in the water) out of waterways and gives developing areas building materials. I bet every single commenter uses plastic daily, until you stop using it yourself (and then tossing it or pretending it gets recycled instead of getting shipped off to countries) maybe hold your tongue.

@smallego8068 2 месяца назад

Plastic turns into microplastic as soon as the plastic has to endure even the smallest mechanical forces. Tires of cars, the wind blowing small particles against your plastic brick made house etc.

@evlsc400 2 месяца назад

@@smallego8068 What is vinyl siding made of? why do people like yourself, who clearly have no idea in this space- type out a comment? like tf kind of goofy drugs did your doctor prescribe you?

@highestqualitypigiron 2 месяца назад

There's no microplastics if you incinerate the plastic, you can burn it for energy too. Not sure why this isn't done. I guess people are terrified of CO2 emissions

@hansdampf2084 2 месяца назад

And you also need to hold your tongue because its IMPOSSIBLE nowadays to live without plastic. Its everywhere. Alternatives like weed are still in the danger zone because people like you still believe propaganda.

@nthedecent7717 2 месяца назад

That's a cute soapbox, too bad the actual solution is simply properly processing waste material instead of just letting 3rd worlders play with our scraps, having them wallow in the health consequences. Then again, that kinda propper solution takes people with brains, so I don't know how much you can relate to that 😏

@jamescox7007 2 месяца назад

The first video is amazing. The girl who owns the company appreciates every worker. The sorter to the press worker. Good for her.

@sriharshacv7760 15 дней назад

Yeah. Also her tremendous childlike energy.

@nathanrobinson7715 Месяц назад

At least she's trying to do something unlike the one putting this down. Yes if cars drove over it would produce micro plastics. But people walking over it is less weight. And places like this have less cars.

@aperson696 20 дней назад

also at least its keeping it out OF OUR DAMN WATER SUPPLY plastic will always turn into microplastics no matter what

@ronch550 Месяц назад

It's both great and at the same time kinda sad that plastic really isn't going anywhere and will just accumulate

@carlramirez6339 22 дня назад

I would like to thank these people for trying to fix our problems. However, I'm very worried for their health, especially those in the 2nd operation (the tyre recyclers in Nigeria).

@eilishbrown2601 11 дней назад

The woman making bricks has great energy, but all of those workers are not protected.

@alexandrarabinovici3826 2 месяца назад

It seems to me that people care a lot ❤

@user-nq8mm6oz8r Месяц назад

You are who this world needs more of. Awesome

@SedityTigolebitties90 Месяц назад

This woman is dope AF ❤

@bodacious9777 17 дней назад

Dopey pope NOPE

@user-un8bw8bp8m Месяц назад

Great videos! Not only are the people featured in them necessary for changing the problems in the world, but so too are the creators of such informative content to help facilitate awareness while fostering future game changing ideas in minds of individuals around the world. A sincere thanks goes out to everyone that plays a part in turning problems into postives, regardless of how big or small that role may be!

@sunshinenetherlight1571 Месяц назад

I am very grateful to these people who figured out a way to reuse plastic in a way that reduces the landfills and trashes in the ocean. So if we reuse the trash plastic into making products that use others materials we reduce the amount of both plastic and that other materials.

@TheWowWowWest Месяц назад

Absolutely! And I hope in the case of plastics, they can protect themselves better during production to avoid occupational illnesses. We need people like them to stick around! 🤞

@kevinjoy155 Месяц назад

Yeah instead of plastic being in landfills it's now in your blood, lungs , food , water house. How great ? Plastic rather than staying in the ground it's in you

@dan4653 Месяц назад

As someone with severe mold allergies, anything recycled can debilitating for me. This has the potential to be far more dangerous to me than many of you can imagine. Chemically convert the waste streams to something else. Don't just squeeze them into sponges oozing out toxins.

@kevinjoy155 Месяц назад

@@dan4653 could not have said it better

@lovelyyluciddreams4352 4 дня назад

Nzambi seems like such a good person! I love that she makes sure every person at the company knows they are very special to her and that she couldn’t do it without them.

@lisabierstedt5045 Месяц назад

I think you have done a excellent job of recycling trash to treasure. And your helping your country improve what you live like,look like,and healthly living for future families. Keep up your GREAT thinking and hard work. God bless you.

@ScribeAdept 2 месяца назад

This video was made from recycling previous videos into a single offering.

@1stPrinciples455 13 дней назад

Likes : innovative ideas sharing. Great narration.

@moondog4313 Месяц назад

This is amazing that things gets recycled ♻️ ♻️ and kept out of the landfills

@vibrasieve 28 дней назад

This is a great job, turning waste into treasure

@jeffa8683 Месяц назад

Building bricks is definitely worth it the compression strength is probably good for up to a 3 story home

@user-lp1rg1od7y 2 месяца назад

Genius! I'm super impressed ❤😊

@paquitoignacio3449 Месяц назад

This a brilliant product inventions, with good potential export to other countries, wishing them success for this venture.

@bramstikkel5713 Месяц назад

Impressive great work! My compliments!

@lunarfifthstudios Месяц назад

Thank you for this!

@AyupStuggy Месяц назад

What a fantastic dynamic young lady.

@angelmyra4444 2 месяца назад

This channel is so informative!

@louera Месяц назад

This is amazing!!

@maggiehumble7822 Месяц назад

GREAT IDEA,,,wonderful jo

@madmanmechanic8847 Месяц назад

Man I love this shit! I wish they had recycling here in Elko Nv everything just gets tossed in the land fill really pisses me off. I hate tossing out things that can be recycled

@EcomCarl 23 дня назад

Incredible initiative in utilizing waste materials to create sustainable construction bricks! 🌍 It's crucial for us to continue innovating while also addressing potential environmental impacts, such as microplastic release, to ensure these solutions are truly beneficial long-term.

@PachaloKamanga 20 дней назад

Very true

@HD-fc4ds 2 месяца назад

They are making those for like 10 years and not a single road in Kenya covered in it. So cool story

@via45 2 месяца назад

Roads are not made of concrete man

@nthedecent7717 2 месяца назад

@@via45😂😂😂

@stevee8698 Месяц назад

Using plastic on roads will only cause more micro plastics as it wears down.

@ssweeps Месяц назад

All the workers need to wear masks. Please.

@lancerudy9934 28 дней назад

Great video thanks 😊

@robertschneider8210 Месяц назад

Awesome!!!

@ssweeps Месяц назад

Wow. A whole 10 grand. She needs to expand. Give her millions to start. MR BEAST WHERE ARE YOU?

@josephvictorino2700 Месяц назад

The workers of Ghejenge must wear protective face mask and hand gloves for their own safety.The smell of melted plastics is very dangerous in health and environment.

@MrJackmandew Месяц назад

Grind the plastic up and us it for a base on roads,, there's also a company in Canada that's making a brick like slumpstone that has a lip and easily stack up for building

@duskintheforest584 Месяц назад

Bravo!

@S.P.H.E 7 дней назад

Sbonge 🙌🏾

@Titaanimation Месяц назад

i want a world when we use natural jute bag for the groceries, gelatine plastique for hygienic food conservation (like fish or meat), and all sorts of woods for construction! like the old time

@moshehim1000 12 дней назад

I have to ask - about the plastic bricks and rooftiles - isn't that a fire hazard? I'm thinking like back in the day they had lead in the roofing, and then, during a fire, it would melt and rain a fiery death on the people below. I imagine molten plastic dripping and dropping down would be almost as bad?

@Shibinbasheer007 2 месяца назад

🔥👍

@Henchman1977 2 месяца назад

6:27 if you're going to add subtitled at least do it correctly... "plastic being burned..."

@StephanePlaisance Месяц назад

Great dev project. But! What about improving the safety of these brave workers. I cannot believe the air they Breath is ok with plastic powder all over the place. Same for the final product subjected to rain wash in the streets.

@dennisf.macintyre117 14 дней назад

Though I like seeing it made into bricks, I would like to see the surface of these bricks made with indentations that would enable, after they were used to make walls for buildings, to be parged, i.e. covered with a lime or cement 3/8 to 1/2 inch covering spread over for fire-proofing and to eliminate the loss of, the erosion of micro- plastics, and what damage the sun might have if these bricks were not so covered. If it should prove that more strength is required in the bricks, perhaps chopped fiberglass strands might be considered to be added to the mix.

@D.Frasure 25 дней назад

Very smart

@barbaraness4507 Месяц назад

The main problem with trying to do this in the U.S. is there are so few recycling facilities, and especially collection sites. Ultimately the better solution is drastically decrease the amount of waste created.

@Onedestinationclub День назад

they can increase the size of the bricks to gain more production in area for pathway ,

@duskintheforest584 Месяц назад

It still sequesters the plastic waste in a useful form.

@netdoom Месяц назад

The fumes really need to be tested…

@piotrek5s170 Месяц назад

about fumes, making 1 ton of concrete releases several tons of co2

@LightSourceTemple Месяц назад

The fumes are carcinogenic

@Chr.U.Cas2216 Месяц назад

Unfortunately all this is only a re-upload and could already been watched some time ago.

@chip582002 Месяц назад

I'm sure this isn't a new idea but can't you make things that wouldn't wear or not quickly like roads etc. I've seen the new printers that print all kinds of things from what appears to be some kind of plastic. Possibly some type of things for construction of buildings etc.

@RandomGuyOnYoutube601 6 дней назад

Making bricks by hand seems unsustainably inefficient.

@OzyMandias13 Месяц назад

I don’t know the real answer to that question, but the pragmatic one is, “It’d better be!”. 😊

@jeffthekillercriticremixer5968 19 дней назад

The micro plastic this process generates, is much smaller than landfill plastic. Our bodies over time will learn to process it. Pigs and goats process it now Adding starch to plastic can help break it down.. are you still work at an adhesive cat factory as a lab technician and we made plastic glues and one time some starts from another glue got into some of our plastic glue and we realized over time that glue began to decompose but I asked my boss why we didn't do this all the time to make a more safer biodegradable plastic and he told me it would cost too much

@barbaraness4507 Месяц назад

The U.S. needs to do better about decreasing the amount of plastic, and other materials damaging the Earth, instead of just building trash mountains everywhere!

@liberty7361 Месяц назад

Great idea, but not sure if its safe to use for schools or in child rich environments. Curious to know if they tested for toxins/chemical releases from the finished product . . . ?

@R0senza Месяц назад

Hempcrete bricks would be a good solution for more sensitive environments. Easy, quick grow and sustainable.

@warshaq101 Месяц назад

I hope you have a link of there respective website.

@ScrotN Месяц назад

Problem with people who say we should stop using plastic would be "What's the substitute?" Deleting convenience would mean you need to have something better to offer. Sure educations and plastic reduction with recycling old plastic is one thing, but in the end you're only delaying the inevitable. Sure it may sound like it's helping, but what we need is knowledge. Not down right shut everyone up

@luizcoelho1267 Месяц назад

Nzambi is an inspiration! UN giving her only 10k USD?! That's not the way to go. When developing countrioes pour billions of dollars and things that are kind of useless, we as society should invest and reward people (and projects) like her.

@purpleprincess5995 Месяц назад

❤

@BlackHoleOfTime 21 день назад

Should make something to build Home instead of cover larger areas where the water will rain on and go into the ground. When you could make smething to build the internal structure of a building that would last for a long time

@johnjohnf.webber1820 2 месяца назад

Using these plastics as building materials looks like a good thing. There should be an incentive of buying or selling plastic garbage so that like aluminum cans or copper wire wastes people clean and store them for recycling and selling.

@rskat501 Месяц назад

No need to clean aluminum that's going to be recycled

@drjany593 18 дней назад

In Ghana someone already makes houses from recycled plastic waste

@mohitaggarwal7583 12 дней назад

Cement kilns are the best for petroleum waste

@user-wh4oq7qd1f 2 месяца назад

Goooodddddddd bless you ❤😢

@DreamBike7 Месяц назад

Upload video all language voice connect to world people

@SpectralonWhite 2 месяца назад

Good on her. ❤👍

@shorndavies4724 Месяц назад

What if the house of plastic bricks catches on fire, wouldn't it be poisonous fumes, pollution!

@tarotofbread7720 Месяц назад

I know its too late to heal her but at least we are protecting our Earth rhe best we can now

@tbd5820 Месяц назад

Nice, is that a new substitute for asbestos?

@runesvensson1244 Месяц назад

How much heavy metal is allowed in those bricks?

@crazyflboy8727 2 месяца назад

India needs this

@Ok-vm7lg 29 дней назад

small solutions add up faster than developing big ones hahaha

@lnwolf41 Месяц назад

Sadly none of the first world countries will adopt any of these systems, since you will never get people to sort through the garbage. Also it is much cheaper to ship our plastic waste to 3rd world countries. We should at least help expand these companies to process more plastic quicker.

@donalddelabar767 Месяц назад

Don’t use it in roads, keep making bricks for side walks and courtyards and walls. If I had the money I would invest in that

@FlorentCurk 24 дня назад

so good.. This lady deserve a nobel price ^^' This is a good way to transform the plastic durable since we find a real way to destroy it properlly.

@markcasila8310 Месяц назад

the question is what if a fire hapens i a school or house the plastic is flamable and also free highly dangerous quimics

@Liam-ql7tr Месяц назад

Lol and next trillions of tons of micro plastic particles into the water….LOL

@user-dq7wq7wo8c 2 месяца назад

First to watch

@agingmillennialmainer Месяц назад

N95 works against plastic fumes?

@TonySkd-ws4lu 7 дней назад

Well here comes first couple millions.

@King.Mark. Месяц назад

fire ,heat,smell,water run off will be toxic as well

@bornesulinowo391 10 дней назад

A few of that are remarkable. I mean seaweed the most. Plastic is too durable, toxic and carcinogenic to recycle. Should be pyrolyzed, I think.

@jimysk8er Месяц назад

I reject the notion that recycling plastics into bricks and asphalt would be worse than not recycling plastics at all. You are physically removing surface area exposed to the elements by encasing everything together compared to lose bits and bobs and containers. You will never convince me that using tar for roads is somehow less toxic than plastics. The majority of microplastics and pollution from roads are from vehicles anyways not from driving surfaces.

@chuckoaks6756 Месяц назад

It'll never happen on a large scale. Plastic companies won't have it and construction companies won't have it. It'll all go in the water or shipped and dumped in foreign countries like it is now.

@Xuehuapiaopiao00 2 месяца назад

First

@abovewater99 Месяц назад

Earthquakes exist. LoL

@vincentsaputra Месяц назад

Much better if societies reduce consuming packaged food and beverage.

@besllu8116 16 дней назад

But, are they toxic, like under heat are there vapors?

@AlbertBeharry Месяц назад

What if it catches on fire?

@rskat501 Месяц назад

What If a skyscraper collapses?

@rockytop4 Месяц назад

Good point regular bricks won't burn ...there worthless just stop using plastic

@thdbird83 2 месяца назад

basically move the "landill" back into the city again. when we already spent so much engery (fuel of garbage trucks) putting away those trash to the landfill outside the city.