What if we told you that you could build entire buildings out of trash?
That future may be closer than you think, thanks to new tech from ByFusion Global, an LA-based startup that has developed a way for governments, companies, and communities to recycle previously unrecyclable plastic.
The cinderblockish bricks are made using a steam-based compacting method that does not require any chemicals.
The CEO of ByFusion said in an interview that the company received a grant and is working with Hefty to run a pilot program in Idaho that will give the community access to trash bags.
Along with providing the tech, the pilot program is slated to help residents divert up to 72 tons of otherwise unrecyclable plastics from the local landfill and has already used the blocks to build a bench in a city park.
There is room for criticism of the startup's partnership with a company that makes plastic bags and an organization that is important to the not-so-green financial industry.
Whoever comes up with a way to implement this kind of system on a mass scale deserves the prize.
The hard-to-recycle plastic is now being made into zero waste.
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