To make matters worse pet is very difficult to process.
Recycling plastic into construction materials.
As a result discarded pet bottles are usually either burned or strewn across streets and fields as litter.
Such recycled plastics are used to make polymeric timbers for use in everything from picnic tables to fences thus helping to save trees.
Solving the world s plastic crisis we partner with material recycling facilities governments municipalities and corporations.
Recycling plastics is helping to save energy and landfill space.
Pressure is then applied on it to produce the raw material for construction products.
The selected plastic waste is grinded into flakes placed into a mold and melted once it is in a plasma state.
Using recycled plastic as the main ingredient in structural lumber as an alternative to other materials such as steel comes with indisputable advantages.
Using a similar process post consumer and post industrial expanded polystyrene eps has effectively been recycled into lightweight concrete bricks and screeds.
Turning plastic waste into building materials is a cost effective solution to upcycling the waste that would usually end up in a landfill.
Houses built with this waste material cost less than those made of concrete.
A project uses locally made machines to recycle plastic bottles into construction materials spotted in uganda polyethylene terephthalate pet bottles have a low recycling value.
Recycled plastics are used in new building and construction applications every day.
By using plastic to make lumber instead of wood you no longer have to spray wood with toxic preservatives to protect it from aspects such as insects and weather.