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Why plastic waste is an ideal building material
Source: bbcnews.com, Date: , 2020
The
disposal of plastics is a highly visible global problem ? from the highest
mountains to the deepest ocean trenches, waste plastic seems inescapable. In
natural conditions, plastics are nearly indestructible, and yet they are discarded
worldwide on a large scale: the world produces around 359 million tonnes of
plastics each year. The environment cannot address their disposal at a speed
fast enough to prevent harm to living beings.
This
has led to a consensus that plastics are an unsustainable material. And yes,
plastics are certainly an enormous problem, but they don?t necessarily have to
be.
The
main issue is not with plastic as a material, but with our linear economic
model: goods are produced, consumed, then disposed of. This model assumes
endless economic growth and doesn?t consider the planet?s exhaustible
resources.
But
there are many ways we could set plastics on a different lifecycle ? and one
that I have been working on is turning disused plastics into a hardy, reliable
and sustainable building material. Read more at :Why plastic waste is an ideal building material
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