{"id":190643,"date":"2024-06-05T06:25:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T11:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/bulldozer-resistant-tough-lego-bricks-made-from-90-plastic-trash"},"modified":"2024-06-05T06:25:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T11:25:07","slug":"bulldozer-resistant-tough-lego-bricks-made-from-90-plastic-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/bulldozer-resistant-tough-lego-bricks-made-from-90-plastic-trash","title":{"rendered":"Bulldozer-resistant tough Lego bricks made from 90% plastic trash"},"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\/PVlm_4XlHds?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The brick looks like concrete but avoids typical issues like water absorption and cracking.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Newly-introduced Lego-like bricks may make the construction process easier than ever.<\/p>\n<p>A Canada-based sustainable startup, PLAEX Building Systems Inc., has created recycled plastic bricks. Named \u201cPlaex-crete,\u201d these blocks are lightweight, durable, and eco-friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Plaex was founded by Dustin Bowers, and means PL-astic, A-ggregate, and EX-truder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brick looks like concrete but avoids typical issues like water absorption and cracking. Newly-introduced Lego-like bricks may make the construction process easier than ever. A Canada-based sustainable startup, PLAEX Building Systems Inc., has created recycled plastic bricks. Named \u201cPlaex-crete,\u201d these blocks are lightweight, durable, and eco-friendly. Plaex was founded by Dustin Bowers, and means [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190643","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}