{"id":28023,"date":"2017-12-21T09:17:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T07:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/?p=28023"},"modified":"2018-08-27T12:56:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T10:56:36","slug":"message-bottle-ecobrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/message-bottle-ecobrick\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ecobrick &#8211; Message In A Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;\">Candice Mostert &#8211; Waste-ED Founder<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Simply a plastic bottle stuffed with non-recyclable materials, the ecobrick has\u00a0become a symbol of man\u2019s relationship with nature in the last century. Each brick\u00a0tells a personal story of consumption, industry and the systems we have in place\u00a0to deal with a fast-growing economy.<\/p>\n<p>Alone, I make roughly 1 ecobrick a month. You can fit up to 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/tuffy-recycled-black-refuse-bags-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">black bags<\/a> of non-\u00a0recyclables into one 2L bottle! I have been stuffing for 6 years now and so I have\u00a0been able to track my own consumption, which has added up to roughly 144L (or\u00a0144 bags) of material that was otherwise deemed to lay waste.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28027 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/25289533_1634410569954027_4247807808683927721_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"379\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/25289533_1634410569954027_4247807808683927721_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/25289533_1634410569954027_4247807808683927721_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/25289533_1634410569954027_4247807808683927721_n-610x407.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/25289533_1634410569954027_4247807808683927721_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was a very powerful realisation for me; before that, my waste honestly hadn\u2019t\u00a0even crossed my mind, let alone if it was recyclable or where it ended up. My\u00a0thoughts literally didn\u2019t go past the bin! I was so inspired by the bottle brick I\u00a0started a project called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WasteEDSA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waste-ED<\/a> and have since used the last 6 years to try\u00a0better understand the challenges we are facing, implement solutions locally that\u00a0can transform our future while collecting and building ecobrick structures all along\u00a0the way!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not new that the things we produce and consume are having a profound\u00a0impact on our very fragile and unique ecosystem as well as our people \u2013 you just\u00a0have to scroll down Facebook for a few minutes to see a story of a whale or entire\u00a0community facing the wrath. When you start stuffing a bottle to make an ecobrick\u00a0there are a few things you start to reconsider; the idea of convenience,\u00a0transportation and waste management facilities just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Long distance transportation of our goods and our need for \u2018on the go\u2019 are just two\u00a0reasons that products are being so heavily packaged and chemically altered. We\u00a0also have to understand that in many countries the goods came before the\u00a0management systems and this is why so many have been unable to deal with the\u00a0fast-growing influx. Unfortunately, not everything is recyclable and even if it is \u2013\u00a0very often it doesn\u2019t make it to be processed. Luckily these downfalls can be used\u00a0as an opportunity to redesign production, packaging and process facilities so that\u00a0they can imitate natures cyclical system where immediately one&#8217;s waste becomes\u00a0useful for something else \u2013 better yet, no packaging creates no waste!<\/p>\n<p>This concept of product and system change is vital but it is also a longer-term\u00a0solution that starts with what we buy. The ecobrick offers a short-term, temporary\u00a0solution to deal with centuries of past waste and the items we continue to produce\u00a0today.<\/p>\n<p>The ecobrick is so much more than a consumption wake-up call; for about 15\u00a0years now it has helped us provide much-needed structures worldwide too. You\u00a0can track the birth of the bottle brick to Susana Heisse, an environmental activist\u00a0from Guatemala. In the ecobrick community, she is known as the grandmother or\u00a0queen of the ecobrick! She came up with an idea that used trash as its own\u00a0container. She got children in the village to pick up wrappers and stuff them into\u00a0bottles that they\u2019d exchange for school supplies. She took the bottles and used\u00a0them as building blocks embedded in adobe structures. This became particularly\u00a0important after Hurricane Stan in 2005, when so many people had to rebuild their\u00a0homes. Since then the brick has inspired many individuals and whole communities\u00a0to re-look at their items being thrown away.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-28028 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/14479683_1210395662355522_7855793511223492231_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/14479683_1210395662355522_7855793511223492231_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/14479683_1210395662355522_7855793511223492231_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/14479683_1210395662355522_7855793511223492231_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/14479683_1210395662355522_7855793511223492231_n-610x610.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/14479683_1210395662355522_7855793511223492231_n-440x440.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/14479683_1210395662355522_7855793511223492231_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the ecobricks best properties is its insulation, allowing the building to keep\u00a0cool during the day and warm at night. The conventional building uses plastic\u00a0insulation\u00a0too, it just comes in the form of what we recognise as a kind of foam.\u00a0The ecobrick is best used in natural clay building (cob\/adobe) and Waste-ED\u00a0doesn\u2019t settle for anything less. This way the bottle is preserved for future use\u00a0(cement leaves bricks mostly unusable and is one of the worlds highest\u00a0contributors to greenhouse gases), theclay acts as a fire retardant and prevents\u00a0any chemicals from leaching, which is really important considering how toxic some\u00a0of our current housing materials can be.<\/p>\n<p>My favourite thing about the brick is that it\u2019s free; the materials and techniques to\u00a0make a clay\/ecobrick structure can be accessed by anyone needing a home or\u00a0toilet block if they have clay nearby, and in this country that\u2019s almost 60% of us. In\u00a0fact, the bottle brick is just one of many alternative ways one can build structures\u00a0that empowers the individual, community and the environment. Tyres are used to\u00a0make weight bearing, bullet and earthquake-proof structures, sandbags housing\u00a0is also more common than you would think and even straw bales can be used to\u00a0create strong, aesthetically pleasing structures.<\/p>\n<p>With both products and housing, the solution is &#8220;get local&#8221;. The ecobrick is not for\u00a0everyone and solutions locally will vary from place to place. Ultimately ecobricks\u00a0need to be phased out with their single-use friends but it has the unique ability to\u00a0clean up communities and more than that, trigger something within us that\u00a0connects us with nature and the materials we once found valueless. It gives us an\u00a0opportunity to open our world to something greater \u2013 a future we can be proud to\u00a0call home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29743 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-BRICK-FOR-THE-FUTURE-campaign_WEB.jpg\" alt=\"A BRICK FOR THE FUTURE campaign_WEB\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-BRICK-FOR-THE-FUTURE-campaign_WEB.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-BRICK-FOR-THE-FUTURE-campaign_WEB-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-BRICK-FOR-THE-FUTURE-campaign_WEB-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-BRICK-FOR-THE-FUTURE-campaign_WEB-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-BRICK-FOR-THE-FUTURE-campaign_WEB-610x863.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29744\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29744\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/collection-point-info-Levana-school-outdoor-classroom_web.jpg\" alt=\"collection-point-info---Levana-school-outdoor-classroom_web\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/collection-point-info-Levana-school-outdoor-classroom_web.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/collection-point-info-Levana-school-outdoor-classroom_web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/collection-point-info-Levana-school-outdoor-classroom_web-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/collection-point-info-Levana-school-outdoor-classroom_web-510x382.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.faithful-to-nature.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/collection-point-info-Levana-school-outdoor-classroom_web-610x458.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Collection point info: Levana School<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simply a plastic bottle stuffed with non-recyclable materials, the ecobrick has<br \/>\nbecome a symbol of man\u2019s relationship with nature in the last century. 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