An eco-brick is a two-litre plastic cool-drink bottle stuffed with non-recyclable plastic. It is used to make various items from furniture and vegetable beds to walls and even houses.
ECOBRICK is more than just a new buzzword in environmentally-conscious circles.
This innovative idea is a means to put non-recyclable household waste to good use and reduce litter in landfills and the ocean.
An eco-brick is a two-litre plastic cool-drink bottle stuffed with non-recyclable plastic. It is used to make various items from furniture and vegetable beds to walls and even houses.
Shaun Callaghan is paying carguards and the unemployed R10 for every ecobrick they bring in to any of his three drop-off points. Through these collections, he plans to build walls and runs at Amanzimtoti SPCA and a bird hide along Amanzimtoti River.
“I’m receiving about 10 bricks every day, and at R10 a brick, it is costing quite a bit,” he said. “If anyone wants to make a donation towards this initiative, either donate ecobricks or give a cash donation, whereby say R100 would cover 10 ecobricks and so on, it would be welcomed.”
Callaghan’s current drop-off points are Secret Corner in Athlone Park near the Hot Rock Cafe, Spy Shop in Toti Centre above Woolworths and Produce Direct Farmers Market on Main Road, Doonside.
