Summary:
But furniture is not Khurana’s end-goal.“I intend to either send the EcoBricks to plastic recycling units or to companies that use plastic in laying of roads. “Back home in Sri Lanka, I’d collect the plastic waste I’d generate and having no idea what to do with it, would bury it in a corner of my garden. Pro-action decrees not just reining in our waste but doing more – planting, composting, recycling… — at the community level. This plastic silo is the EcoBrick – an astonishingly simple device which, in its very construction, necessitates a critical review of the maker’s consumption of plastic in its myriad forms. The bottles are then used as ‘bricks’, or building blocks for a variety of utilities, including modular furniture, garden benches, walls, fences, art installations and even homes.Until last year, Khurana thought only to minimise his plastic waste..