{"id":141217,"date":"2022-06-28T03:02:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T08:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/kenyan-engineer-invents-method-to-turn-waste-plastic-into-sturdy-construction-bricks"},"modified":"2022-06-28T03:02:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T08:02:40","slug":"kenyan-engineer-invents-method-to-turn-waste-plastic-into-sturdy-construction-bricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/kenyan-engineer-invents-method-to-turn-waste-plastic-into-sturdy-construction-bricks","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Engineer Invents Method to Turn Waste Plastic Into Sturdy Construction Bricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v1n59ofmpMs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A 30-year-old Kenyan engineer named Nzambi Matee has come up with a promising way to upcycle plastic trash that would\u2019ve otherwise landed in landfills \u2014 by pressing it, with the addition of sand, into sturdy bricks and paving stones.<\/p>\n<p>Her Nairobi-based company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gjenge.co.ke\/projects\" class=\"\">Gjenge Makers<\/a>, produces a variety of different paving stones, which are already being put to use to line sidewalks, driveways, and roads.<\/p>\n<p>According to the engineer, the plastic pavers are <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-03-trash-kenyan-inventor-plastic-bricks.html\" class=\"\">seven times stronger<\/a>, 15 percent cheaper to produce and lighter than concrete. And the venture is just getting started, with the company now investigating ways to construct affordable housing from similar materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 30-year-old Kenyan engineer named Nzambi Matee has come up with a promising way to upcycle plastic trash that would\u2019ve otherwise landed in landfills \u2014 by pressing it, with the addition of sand, into sturdy bricks and paving stones. Her Nairobi-based company, Gjenge Makers, produces a variety of different paving stones, which are already being [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}