🇨🇴 Colombia's Lego Homes - earthrise (lead)
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- Colombia's Lego Homes - earthrise (lead)
More than 300 million tonnes of plastic is produced every year, yet just a fraction of this is recycled. Most of the waste usually ends up in landfills, waterways and oceans.
If we use just two percent of the waste plastic in the world, we can change the lives of millions of people. We can end the housing shortage in Latin America in just 10 years.
Oscar Mendez, architect and founder of Conceptos Plasticos
In Colombia's capital, Bogota, it is estimated that 650 tonnes of plastic is thrown away every single day.
Globally, the amount of plastic waste affecting the productivity of natural systems - such as the ocean - and creating a negative effect in urban infrastructures, including managing greenhouse emissions, is conservatively estimated to cost $40bn annually.
However, one enterprise in Colombia has found a novel way of using the normally discarded waste.
Conceptos Plasticos, founded by architect Oscar Mendez, collects recyclable plastic material, melts it down and moulds it into bricks which are then used to build houses for the local community.
The hope is that using plastic to build homes will be the answer to both recycling and housing shortages.
"If we use just two percent of the waste plastic in the world we can change the lives of millions of people. We can end the housing shortage in Latin America in just 10 years," says Mendez.
The company has already helped to house 42 families displaced by conflict in the town of Guapi, Colombia, recycling 120 tonnes of plastic in the process.
Juliana Schatz heads to Bogota to see how Conceptos Plasticos builds these homes out of discarded waste.
This Architect deserves Heaven. The GOLDEN FORMULA .
This is WIN WIN WIN. He also deserves a World Prize and Award.
The blocks look amazing and such a great idea to remove waste plastic from the environment!
@Lucien Studio from which planet are you??
@Lucien Studio - You've got some good points... it's hard for the human race to plan for decades into the future due to biological constraints. Some of us are trying, though!
Another thing that constrains human thinking is the economic model. Humans normally only look to do something if it's "profitable". So... creating building blocks out of plastic waste would not only be helpful (only somewhat, according to you), but also could be profitable. Pumping it back into the ground would not be profitable at all!
The best idea for Earthlings would be to produce toxic waste off-planet, where it won't harm any form of life, but we're not capable of that at the moment!
Are you willing to share with us some further enlightenment?
U spot on friend gov,s rule the world blind lead the blind.
I know this looks like a good idea, but anyone who has seen a fire in a warehouse where plastics were stored knows what a horribly bad idea this is. There is an insane amount of energy in that amount of plastic and once it gets lit there will be no stopping it. Plus the fumes when it burns will be extremely toxic.
@@joeprimal2044 - Perhaps some kind of flame retardant is in order?
I used to do recycling in Los Angeles - best paying job I've ever had (and I've got a Master's Degree) although I normally worked over 60 hours per week. Too tiring.
Steel, newsprint, cardboard, aluminum, copper, brass, other recyclables and resellables - but never plastics.
Maybe now that will change.... .
Nice
Fantastic project. I like how it's not just cleaning up the environment, but bringing communities together too. (The guy looks like Antonio Banderas).
Absolutely fantastic! More of these projects need to happen. Recycle recycle, don't want it in land fills or sea. Well done!
@C D Thank you for your input. Let's rather just do nothing. Please tell me what does it smell like? As you are an expert, why don't you contact the company and advise them. I'm sure all the homeless will be grateful. There is always room for improvement in everything.
I know fires are a concern but I love the innovation. I hope that the workers conditions will improve...can't have a business if your workers are sick/dead.
Till now,
I watched about 5 videos of this.
Mr.Oscar Mendez, You people are doing a divine JOB,
Like from India, Andhra Pradesh, Anantapur District.
We (India) need these type of inventions more and more as we are the No.1 population country in next 10 years and using lot of plastic and produces plastic waste like anything.
I am very thankful that there are people like that gentleman owner of the business. I can feel he really wants to make an impact for the good. I hope he becomes very successful in more ways than one
meanwhile nestle , coke , just cranked out another trillion bottles. a drop in a bucket we are drowning in plastic
@Power 2 Weight yeah blame the consumer. With so many alternatives out there, he should just choose a carbon neutral life, right?
@B O I take responsibility for your life you loser
@@spitbukket6862 lol butthurts hmm
Perhaps it's difficult for a small engineering team in Colombia to change big American corporate, but they're doing something innovative about it. It's not like we can't tackle the issue from both ends
A better would be to prevent the import of plastic products.....
La verdad es algo maravilloso tanto como para el planeta como para nosotros al saber que podemos adquirir una vivienda dina de lo que nosotros mismos tiramos
Truly an answer to a world level problem. BRAVO!
Not as built.
Burning plastic in a high density residential occupancy setting is a recipe for disaster.
This is fantastic, you guys give all of us hope for the future.
I'm out of DC and I really want to get into this. It matters where you put it, but I think the concept is fantastic. I want to make this my career!!
Pls call me 9420000072 in india
Do you still want do it? I plan to this for Haiti.
Be prepared for a lengthy certification process, especially with fire rating concerns to name a few.
Could be used for raised beds in a home garden setting.
You have a first N. American customer
Very good idea thats not catching on . They said they need more publicity but won't share the method to make the bricks . They dont want competition .
i think there are so many good uses! i realy like this idea
The only problem will be if it starts eroding and mixes with the soil
nested bird It would have anyway....meanwhile, for 300 or 400 years, it will be put into good use and not end into the ocean.... and who knows how it could be recycle again in the decades to come. I think it’s an awesome idea!
@@luditebreaker5065 unlikely they would erode any faster than concrete or wood planter boxes.
Excelente solución a un problema que aqueja la humanidad.
Felicitaciones conceptos plásticos por tan ingeniosa solución.
But do the bricks offgas? or leech chemicals? What testing has been done?
They do not care about those because they are so poor that having a house is better than having none.
It's the same as 3d printing
They kept the temperature just high enough to melt,so there's no fumes is what they said. I'm sure they're gonna paint etc...which would seal any off gassing. 🤔
I love this concept. For sure it will have a very huge impact on the world. And we will be able to use waste in a very efficient and useful way. Shoutout to all those who are working very hard to change the world for good in a great way💯💯🤘🏻🤘🏻
Admirable y fantastico trabajo. Con el reciclaje no solo estan ayudando al planeta sino tambien a mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas para sus viviendas como a generar nuevas fuentes de empleo. Ojala crezca la compania como un modelo de emprendimiento que asegure el bienestar laboral y el progreso de sus empleados asi como lo hacen varias empresas en Colombia. Como una observacion y de mucha importancia es que deben suministrar implementos de segurdad industrial ya que vi desde la persona que hace el reportaje como los empleados de la planta sin zapatos de seguridad ni gafas protectoras en donde una particula de plastico puede dejar ciego a un operario. Por lo demas, muchos exitos.
Some people brought up health concerns when the sun hits the bricks and the plastic releases toxic fumes. I wonder if that’s true and how safe/unsafe it is. Also, the fire problem - drowning in plastic lava sound like it wouldn’t be fun at all.
They also seem suspiciously lightweight, where is the insulation? This wouldnt work in the north where temperatures drop unexpectedly and you will freeze your brains out in this flimsy plastic home
I love it! How are they for VOC's? Can they be melted and re-formed into blocks again and again? I'm imagining this recycled plastic for 3D printing homes too for an automated build.
this is way better than the wooden houses made in America xD
I know this looks like a good idea, but anyone who has seen a fire in a warehouse where plastics were stored knows what a horribly bad idea this is. There is an insane amount of energy in that amount of plastic and once it gets lit there will be no stopping it. Plus the fumes when it burns will be extremely toxic.
@@joeprimal2044 For sure they have precautions taken/made. I think this is a lot better than just throwing reusable things in the landfills right?
@@joeprimal2044 Sounds a lot like wood, once that gets lit there's no stopping it either...
@@Berkeloid0 No, not even close. The amount of energy per pound in plastic vs wood is many times. No modern country with building codes would allow this.
@@keith_chung No, having seen plastics go up I can tell you it's suicide. I'm all in favor of recycling, but not this.
seems like a good business for every community. I have seen a company in India doing pretty much the same thing but also pavers and tiles. i wonder how they make the roof. If I was going to build I would build with adobe but the recycled plastic is perfect for cities were you don't have much ground to dig.
How reliable and healthy to live on the long term are this houses ?
Love this video and the product you should contact habitat for humanity to help in their mission. Employee local people to produce & build their own homes!
I would love to suport in this projet
This is a great idea. I wonder about health concerns. If any. Like the off gassing of plastics or anything like that. I feel like this could be a great investment opportunity here in America.
Likely no worse than modern homes. The problem with bringing this to the USA is all the rules and laws surrounding building anything. After all the bullcrap you would have to go through to get a "plastic house" approved, it would cost as much or more than a "traditional house" so nobody would want it. If it could be brought to the USA and end up making a new house cost about $50K or less, it would be a good investment for sure. The cost of housing is just too much and will only continue to rise. The average person in the USA just can't afford to buy a house anymore.
Mark Reaves good point. I build houses for a living and lumber cost have been rising for quite some time now. Back in I think “08” when fuel prices shot up to about $4.00 a gallon. Lumber and construction material prices shot right up with the fuel. After the prices came back down. The building materials stayed high along with new construction rules and regulations that just added cost to the end product
@@timothycormier3494 I visualize a home being able to be constructed from panels made from recycled and cheap to purchase materials that can be put together in a way to reduce labor. It would help if these panels are also light in weight. I've seen some panels made from foam sandwiched between wood. Maybe if the wood could be replaced with recycled plastic and the system refined a bit to make assembly and transport easier and cheaper, a house could potentially go together quickly and with minimal labor, reducing the total cost. In this case, the foam is expensive, if ways could be found to make insulated building panels using cheaper materials that still perform well enough, it might be a winner.
Another option, I see no reason why manufactured home builders couldn't work with traditional home builders to create a new type of home that could cost a lot less to end buyer. Using automation and labor-saving techniques, build panels in a factory, load them on a regular semi truck, take them to the home site, have a small team of maybe five people assemble the home from the panels in a few days. There you go, a home shell. If the panels could be made so that the exterior and interior already has a finished surface, that could save a lot of time and money too. The same panel concept could be brought into the roofing to cut down on cost there. You might be able to take a bare piece of prepared land and have a finished house in a month with the right automation setup, and the end result might just be less than $50K new. Real estate agents may hate it, as will a lot of construction crews and maybe even some snobby HOAs, but, I do believe it is possible to have a cheap but decent home built. I'm just not in a position to make or try to make it happen.
Mark Reaves again, another good point. I think/ hope that in the future we’ll see more and more uses of recycled materials. Necessity is the mother of invention and if ya stroll around TH-cam for a while. There’s a lot of people trying to come up with uses for the abundance of waste that we have. But to your point of home construction with recycled materials. It’s a great idea. I feel like we’re not to far away from really utilizing the resource of waste. I know that it probably sounds like an oxymoron. But waste is a resource that we are in abundance of. I still have faith in humanity despite all the anger in our society today. We will find a way! We always do. God bless
They should take this idea and implement it in India!
Yes and to so many countries with housing shortage and plastic pollution.
Everywhere
Should be all over the world!
If possible check out houses made up of rammed earth or rammed earth bags, that will be a healthy and better solution to live in. And instead of making recycling of plastic popular we should spread awareness of not using it.
Google plastic bricks india
Thank you very much Al Jazeera for the English version of Plasticos Conceptos...my question is...is it possible to bring this technology to our place in Samar Philippines?
We have a team of people willing to learn and apply it so that millions of families will benefit.
How gorgeous is she
Wonderful an better than the building materials we are lumbered with, in the WEST!
Please come to Canada 🇨🇦 I been homeless for years. Buying a house 🏡 here is impossible you have to be rich and have good credit renting a house here is impossible you have to be rich and have good credit which makes life very hard for people like me who work at work and work and still can’t get anywhere in life.
Find a mate Shirley. Make concessions for him so he will make some for you. Look after each other. He can help to put a roof over your head. Bring a man from Columbia if you have to.
I am a Canadian man that is so very frustrated with the state of Canadian women. I Love you all but your world view will never work!
Yeah I am one of those bitter MGTOW's. Sorry for projecting on you.
P.S. I agree this would be great here in Canada too
Tom Kelly buddy I been married to the same guy for 20 years I don’t need another husband I need to win the lottery to have any kind of life in Canada 🇨🇦 also your comment to me really did not make sense maybe next time keep your opinions to yourself about Canadian woman cause you don’t know me and I really don’t care to know you. GOOD DAY MATE!!
Need to add my husband is a tow truck driver
Oh I see. You have a great day too, thanks. By the way the next lotto number ends in 4367589 You are welcome. But hey when you win could you send me some of those bricks? Thanks.
Driving a tow truck is a good job where I come from. Maybe you gotta stop spending all your dough on lotto tickets! But if you bought plastic tickets and save them up, you could grind them and make your house one day! Always a silver lining
In Canadian cities, the expense lies in the location... if you went out to the Atlantic provinces, you could certainly afford a decent house!
Hi my name is Samuel Nii Okai from Ghana...
Please tell Oscar Mendez to come Ghana with his innovation coz we are drowning in plastic and he can help with our problem whiles making money at the same time
Colombia is such a beutiful place i remember
So I saw a few bolts and plate mounts but how durable is it? What's its compression strength, can it be used as a foundations, etc. Also can the plastic be beefed up by tweaking the formula and yes, ref comment below, what about the toxic fumes incase a fire breaks out. This is a wonderful and ambitions venture that holds many possibilities if they get it right!
"We are surviving. We are here but tomorrow could be the end." This lyric sums up thinking in lives for more and more people born into this world at the affect of economic disparity and mainstream media.
In my life time opportunities have vanished, working two jobs to pay off another person's morgage diminished to affording nothing and being homeless. I've been tricked out of one retirement and told the other would be worth 75% if all goes well. The rich may need bigger locks on their bloodline doors
people in ghana and kenya are also making bricks and pavment slabs from waste plastic
6:35 so.. meals will be cooked in the kitchen... wow, amazing insights. Thanks for that little exposè
Have to wonder if this product is treated with some sort of fire retardant..
It would melt for sure .
Do they treat wood with some sort of fire retardant??
@@samwelonduko9696 yes.
czrobot czrobot in the us lumber that’s for international construction is not treated.
@@samwelonduko9696 no . They do not . Not in the USA . Stick frame lumber is untreated pine . Wood for outdoors is treated with insecticide .
Remind me, why can't the U.S. fund its own version of this initiative!?
we have... but is so expensive. typical America.... greed and more greed.
we need money for the military
But, but...how will money be made off of this..because, you know...if money can't be made off of it, then America ain't interested. If a nonprofit tried to do something like this here in the states, they would get shut down by lobbyists for the construction companies....
Because YOU aren't willing to invest YOUR money in this project.. Check out Precious Plastic youtube channel. He tells you how to get started doing this on a backyard/small business scale. Then you can build it up..
lol nice try, but capitalism has that covered. Capital accumulation, if the investment makes less money short term you will have less money to invest...and so grow slower. Over time only those who invest in the most short term profits will win out, until they have a monopoly ofc
Earthwise could get more support money and enlarge production easily by getting funded by easy tourist visits they could charge for process. Many people would come to visit and see the salvage plastic process as the host has shown, hands on helping build homes.
Why can't they use this recycled plastic with the 3D printers that make houses? How long would the plastic have to cool for it to bear the weight of upper levels
Half of the video is dedicated to thoroughly explaining we create trash. Who knew. Thanks for the education.
Is there a danger of the plastic releasing toxic fumes into the homes?
Not exactly, Should there be better ways sure but it's safer then concrete.
David; Yes but my walls are drywall and cinder block. Not off-gassing Lego.
This is one of those awesome ideas that I have come up with only to find out that somebody already beat me to it.
Don't let that stop you, there's plenty of trash to go around, best wishes...
Plastic is also so durable it beats bitumen for airport runways, taxiways, roads, and streets hands down!
Yes, I made the same comment! WooT getting the word out!
@Mr Brightside Well Mr. Brightside we are NOT talking about using this brick system for roads or airport runways but replacing tar with plastic it would be extremely similar to the way such things are normally made you would mix sand and gravel with shredded plastic heat it in a big hopper dump it out on a prepared bed of compacted graded earth roll it flat and boom road etcetera.
@Mr Brightside Oh boy so how much of the Earth is made of Rock? Yeah so...semantics.
It takes the same amount of energy to heat tar as it does to heat the plastic to a melting point and yes when making roads you do need to heat the tar.
THINK about how potholes are formed water accumulates under your road freezes expands and then when it melts collapsing destroying the road and making a hazard that also damages your vehicle. Also sinkholes so your touted advantage for tar really is not an advantage unless you are in the roads repair business.
@Mr Brightside Ok so it takes twice the heat and lasts ten years or you can go for half the heat and next year start filling the potholes and so on...
As to plastic being slippery what do you think the sand and gravel are for? Ah yes, filler and friction.
You may not be in the road building or repair business but the politicians' cronies sure are and they donate more to "campaign funds" than you do.
@Mr Brightside Energy consumption: if have you rebuild the road only half as often the energy consumption is equal etcetera the longer it is till you have to rebuild the lower actual energy costs are.
Plastic roads last longer how do I know because Germany and India did studies to find out.
The rapidity of pothole formation depends on your local environment.
To the plastic surfaces getting worn down assertion the plastic is just binder for rocks are tires going to destroy rocks? wear them away? No, as the plastic that is between the rock is sheltered from that wear like mortar in brick walls.
Now you probably are going to mention UV degradation and it is countered by adding carbon powder to the mix.
What do you think tar is? Fairly toxic hydrocarbons that get into the environment from the roads so at worse plastic is an equally problematic material to use.
And that ladies and gentlemen is the use of debate fallacies Ridiculum and Strawman argumentation by Mr. Brightside at the end.
Can you imagine the roads you can make out of that stuff. Bridges sidewalks sewer infrastructure. We've been doing it all wrong. Plastic shouldn't be single use it should be permanent use.
Smart guy, well done 👍
The best way to get rid of plastic is for company’s to stop stop making it ,and go back to the days we didn’t have it ,we still managed ok without it
Would love to collaborate on this project with Malaysia architecture construction companies. Looking forward in future.
building houses out of plastic is A solution for many issues (the cancerous toxicity of plastic can be protected against by measures)
Where can I see the completed house?
There are plastic recycling programs all over the world and we were originally all told that these were the types of projects that these valuable resources could be used for. Unfortunately, there is far more recycled plastics than the traditional plastics manufacturers can make use of. Cities all over North America, Britain, Scandinavia, Europe and Asia have enormous stockpiles of plastics that have nowhere to market them to and they will be eventually transferred to landfills. There is enormous potential for building materials and so many other products. Potential businesses and employment that are being squandered.
Fantastic! Looked like the presenter was fan girling the dude in the story but what a great idea
I saw that too. You can't help but be impressed.
Fantastic to see this......I wish all south American countries did their part......instead of what I saw first hand especially in Chile and Peru........with plastic from within the jungles to the Altiplanos, collected in the cities, and just dumped in the sea, or desert.....there is no landfills operating, and not even sewage ponds or treatment centres! However.....as it's only plastic, aluminium and cardboard mainly recycled......all other materials and scrap is littering south America in rivers, drainage and water Chanel's everywhere.
I wouldn't build the kitchen section out of a plastic material.
I'd be concerned with fire rating
@Mr Brightside I totally agree. It would be much better for them to spend the extra cash they use to buy the plastic bottles in buy a few bags of cement and mix it with a large qty of soil that is readily available to make an interlocking earth blocks.
@Mr Brightside
Precisely
If I recall they use bottle gas in their kitchen for cooking...what a combination!!
Great product good application I would prefer if this building product was limited to pavers roofing tile and exterior walls.
To limit the health risks that likely will occur due to off-gassing.
Bulgaria also needs this. You need to come over here.
Why not research plastic recycling for construction and start your own project. Crowdfunding it would be one way. Good Luck.
I love Colombia
i want to learn the process of how to make that brick. It gonna help my country so much.
Interesting.
I would like to know about the behavior of this material with fire. And what about the thermic insulation?
Beautiful story. Any opportunity for an up date on this project? Many thanks.
We should have been doing this decades ago!
For those who wonder, the formula is just molten plastic and sand in an extruder machine
I was wondering, thank you. Can any plastic be used for these building materials or only certain types?
The world need more people like Oscar and Paulino.
I wonder why they didn't make the bricks a bit bigger. Seems like that would reduce labor.
this oscar dude is awesome
Great product, just a shame the owner of the business isn't a little more open about the process to help solve this waste problem further afield. Clearly a business based solution, but imagine if the IP was freely available?
Que pasa con la resistencia al fuego, exposicion al plastico por largos periodos de tiempo (Es seguro para la salud?), durabilidad, resistencia, precio
Los materiales procesados contienen un aditivo que aisla la llama de fuego evitando su propagación
Por ser un plástico procesado especialmente para ser utilizado como habitat no desprende olores ni afecta la salud, además es compatible con materiales de construcción tradicional para aplicar acabados
Es sismo resistente y con una dura unidad de 500 años
Es valor es muy accesible un casa de 45 metros ronda los 5 mil dólares
I wouldn't want a fire to starr in a plastic brick house.
Is it toxic to live inside ??
Is it fire safe! And what about voc's from plastic?
Why not make the bricks thicker using the same amount of plastic, but more hollow? That would make the walls sturdier. The longer the wall, the more it will bend in the middle. That deflection is proportional to (force * wall_length^3) / thickness^3.
And just like that....overnite....the price of recycled plastic sky rocketed.....
What’s the lifespan of such a house as compared to the ones built with the traditional concrete blocks.
although concrete has a long life it does suffer from the metal rusting (concrete cancer). so the concrete only as good as the rust proofing and quality of the steel that reinforces it and the distance from the surface to the metal as exposure to the elements will speed up the process. The plastic will have a long life but difficult to say if it will be as long but the benefit is that the plastic should be able to be recycled again i would think.
He said it at the beginning of the video, a house like this could last 400 to 500 years.
Nice
This is really cool. Well done!
so odd when you see a clip like this and there are 115 dislikes. who could dislike this?
What is the insulation value?
Good evening
Absolutely wonderful.
Imagine what an Awesome Great fire they would make
interesting, is it resistence against fire?
Of course not, they could emit toxic gases due to solar radiation, especially in their climate zone. This concept could be good on the North( Norway, Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Russia) but definetely not in tropical and subtropical area
Theres a dog, theres a dog on the roof!!!
It's Colombia. All roofs come with a dog.
Good one
What is the name of this company? I want to work and learn from them to make my country a better place to live too.
How can I start this where I am?!!!!
the reporter got a crush on the owner..lol
nah I think it was the other way around
how about fire softy with plastic houses particularly when it comes to congested area like this one?
Is it fireproof?
Can it be cause of fiery...?
Roof dogs...that's a big thing in Columbia!
Who else got a Graty with their slap chop?
I wish i could build my house like this
Somebody call Elon Musk
he has'nt done anything this guy keeps thinking about mars in his wet dreams and forgets he lives on earth
nobody needs a 4 million dollar "tesla" plastic cause all that the guy does. overpriced stuff that helps nobody
Good,homa
Its really a great project, u showed its use in slum homes but can we use it to build buiding by using some heavy mould???? I mean cubical.... and what about the slab???? what material should use for slab for this houses????
Yes, you reshape it and place it temporarily in a wall. this is not a solution especially if you mix it with sand.
I just want to ask what are the side effects of living in this house? How healthy it is to live inside this huge amount of plastic? Does it has any side effects?
i imagine when it burns, it is not really healthy, because of dangerous gases?!
This is genious. But electrical short circuit may cause easy fire.
My question is how can I invest in the company
Brilliant more investment
So what about fire safety?