The company turning hard-to-recycle plastics into bricks

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How to make bricks from plastic trash

A company is shredding, melting, and molding a secret mixture of hard-to-recycle plastics to make solid bricks and beams.The system has helped increase waste collectors' income and address a shortage of school buildings in Ivory Coast.

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Withou any face protection I guess

This sounds encouraging but I wonder what are the unforeseen consequences (ex. will the bricks introduce additional microplastics into the environment as flakeoff, how many times can the end product be recycled, are harmful chemicals being added in the production process, etc)

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