I don’t think so. The surface area of let’s say a plastic trash bag is massive compared to compressed brick like this. Scale this to probably hundreds of not thousands of bags it takes to make one brick and it’s a huge difference. Yes it still sheds and degrades, but the surface area is exponentially lower.
To get there you need to process the plastic which releases some of the myriad additives in that plastic, which are toxic. You want to sequester this plastic not free it’s components. If you want to help, reduce the amount we are making in the first place, because any sort of recycling makes pollution worse.
And you’d lose that bet.
I don’t think so. The surface area of let’s say a plastic trash bag is massive compared to compressed brick like this. Scale this to probably hundreds of not thousands of bags it takes to make one brick and it’s a huge difference. Yes it still sheds and degrades, but the surface area is exponentially lower.
To get there you need to process the plastic which releases some of the myriad additives in that plastic, which are toxic. You want to sequester this plastic not free it’s components. If you want to help, reduce the amount we are making in the first place, because any sort of recycling makes pollution worse.
Yes in an ideal world we would ban plastic. We aren’t there, but I think this is a good step with what we have in front of us.