👉and, when all is said and tried, and plastic ‘needs’ to be discarded send it to a ‘brick maker’.
Introducing Peter Lewis from Dunedin, New Zealand.
‘Peter
Lewis spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to patent plastic blocks
in August 2002, and millions since then to develop industrial scale
equipment. The Byfusion machine required to make the bricks is
manufactured in New Zealand and can be exported in shipping containers.
Their mass production techniques are appropriate for many areas of the
world, including turning the massive plastic garbage patches in the
oceans into useful products.
See Great Pacific Garbage Patch for details on the extent of the problem. ‘ excerpt from article Recycled Plastic Block Houses (http://www.motherearthnews.com)
‘These
rock-hard bricks could be used for garden retaining or landscaping
walls, and had other potential uses including shock absorbers behind
crash barriers’. Read Peter’s full story from the Otago times 2010
article – by clicking on the image below.
Harvey Lacey a Texan man who evolved Peter’s idea further over the last few years, first by enlisting Peter’s help, machines and knowledge set up his own operation based in Texas, USA.
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