ROMA – His bricks are not made of cement or crushed stone. Not even water. It's just plastic waste and sand. Tšehla Kata, a former student of the National University of Lesotho (NUL), recycles plastic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Kenyan woman invented a brick stronger than concrete that’s made entirely of recycled materials like plastic. “Plastic waste is ...

A Kenyan woman is harnessing her country’s mounds of plastic waste to create both new jobs and bricks that are stronger than concrete. Close-up of the sturdy recycled bricks being produced by Kenyan ...

AS intimated by the author in the preface, this book is intended: “ (a) to supply reliable and unbiased information to those firms and individuals who contemplate making or buying bricks and ...

Plastic pollution is a worldwide problem. In Nairobi alone, about 500 metric tons of plastic waste are generated every single day. Only a fraction of this number is recycled. In true innovation ...

Novita Tan launched recycling company Rebrick after Indonesia drew headlines as the second-biggest producer of marine waste in the world behind China - Copyright AFP ...

Ovy Sabrina fights plastic waste in Indonesia by spreading noodle packets, coffee sachets, straws and other trash around the sprawling archipelago — entombed in eco-friendly bricks. Her family knows ...

These days, Nelson Boateng calls himself a “reformed plastic bag manufacturer”. The 36-year-old entrepreneur, who at one time recycled tons of discarded plastic sachets into pellets to make plastic ...

Q-I want to put down a walk made of bricks without using cement or mortar. Can I just set the bricks into the soil, or should I put down a bed of sand first? And if sand is okay, how much sand is ...

NAIROBI, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Nzambi Matee hurls a brick hard against a school footpath constructed from bricks made of recycled plastic that her factory turns out in the Kenyan capital. It makes a loud ...