{"id":15822,"date":"2019-05-08T16:58:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T11:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?p=15822"},"modified":"2019-05-08T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T11:28:42","slug":"eco-brick-bench-at-fsl-indias-cel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/eco-brick-bench-at-fsl-indias-cel\/","title":{"rendered":"Eco brick bench at FSL-India\u2019s CEL!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In March\n2019, we started to refill used plastic bottles with plastic trash. The\nprevious volunteers from the Environmental Education (EE) Project already began\nthe project of building one bench with eco bricks. We already had around 120\neco bricks from last year, so we needed only 60 more eco bricks for finishing\nour eco brick bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG-20190420-WA0028-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15824\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Eco bricks\nare made out of plastic bottles filled with plastics waste. Each bottle\u2019s\nweight reaches 300 grams, and it has to be strong and solid. For that, one\nstick has to be used in a certain way, the plastic can be thick and it takes\naround 3 hours to complete 1 brick. FSL-India volunteers have collected a lot\nof plastic from the local shops and the beach cleaning initiatives, so they had\nplenty of material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG-20190420-WA0029-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15825\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We got some clay and we mixed it together with water and rice husks because we needed it for holding the eco bricks together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG-20190420-WA0033-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15826\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The basis of\nour bench was cement and on top of it we started to put the bottles in a shape\nof a half-moon. Every layer of eco bricks needed a lot of clay, so we were\nseparated into 2 groups: one group to build the bench and the other one mixed\nand stamped the clay together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG-20190420-WA0034-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15827\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, we\nfinished our construction of the eco brick bench with more than 160 plastic\nbottles at the end of March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG-20190420-WA0035-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15828\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of\nthis eco brick project, we felt it was a lot of fun and work to build the bench\nfor all of us, but at least it was worth it, and it looks really nice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2019-04-20-at-10.28.54-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15830\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a\nvery curious way to reuse plastics and we are very happy to have a new bench at\nFSL-India\u2019s CEL where people can sit and relax in the shade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG-20190420-WA0014-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15823\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2019, we started to refill used plastic bottles with plastic trash. The previous volunteers from the Environmental Education (EE) Project already began the project of building one bench with eco bricks. We already had around 120 eco bricks from last year, so we needed only 60 more eco bricks for finishing our eco brick bench. Eco bricks are made out of plastic bottles filled with plastics waste. Each bottle\u2019s weight reaches 300 grams, and it has to be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/eco-brick-bench-at-fsl-indias-cel\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":15829,"comment_status":"Closed","ping_status":"Closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[432,446],"tags":[723,653,476,722],"class_list":["post-15822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centre-for-experiential-living","category-environmental-education","tag-eco-brick-bench","tag-eco-bricks","tag-environmental-education","tag-plastic-waste-recycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15831,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15822\/revisions\/15831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}