Our Ecobrick Project started as a solution to help remove plastics from the surrounding community to help tackle the health and environmental problems faced by plastic pollution. Ecobricks serve as an alternative to traditional bricks and have a far greater life span, therefore acting as a long-term solution to the current plastic waste problem. Our goal is to use these bricks to build benches throughout the community which currently has no public seating areas in place.
Plastic pollution within the rural communities of Uganda is a pressing issue due to the negative health and environmental impacts it causes. To address this issue The Angel Projects of America have produced a solution. Through the production of eco bricks we can minimize the negative impact plastic has on the village of Rubuguri and its surrounding areas while simultaneously producing functional structures that serves the community.
The production of Ecobricks serves as a solution to tackle both issues related to plastic pollution. Each brick takes around 170 grams of plastic, so a small bench consisting of approximately two hundred bottles removes a total of 80lbs of plastic from the community. If we go further and consider a small wall consisting of around 10,000 eco bricks then a staggering 3740 lbs of plastic is removed from the community.
The continued construction of benches and walls throughout the community there will be a significant shift in the environmental landscape of this region. Overall health and wellbeing of the community will be improved when the burning of plastic is no longer viewed as the only mode of plastic disposal. Crop yields will remain stable as further soil pollution ends. Finally, the construction of ecobrick benches and walls have the long-term sustainability to manage plastic pollution in the community
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