Me again, saving the world.
I had this thought yesterday because I was playing with some breed of resin based epoxy. In any case, when I deal with this stuff, I have to plan the drop cloth carefully. Epoxy will seep right into paper and glue it to the ground. It's a high holy mess.
What I use instead are plastic bags, I which case I'm left with this half flappy, half brittle structure. Obvioulsy, epoxy turns into plastic and the overall effect is a kind plastic bag fossil.
Okay, now here's my point. Why not make bricks out of that? I deal with masonry and plastic all the time, and I can tell you that at a certain thickness, the two are comparable. It's a hell of a lot harder to snap plastic than wood. We have continents of these plastic bags lieing around, this would be a perfect way to put them to use.
What I use instead are plastic bags, I which case I'm left with this half flappy, half brittle structure. Obvioulsy, epoxy turns into plastic and the overall effect is a kind plastic bag fossil.
Okay, now here's my point. Why not make bricks out of that? I deal with masonry and plastic all the time, and I can tell you that at a certain thickness, the two are comparable. It's a hell of a lot harder to snap plastic than wood. We have continents of these plastic bags lieing around, this would be a perfect way to put them to use.
posted by Monstro D. Whale at
6:43 AM
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Have you ever noticed that the plastic bags are basically ripped from a brick of plastic at the store? They fill the bag, rip it from the plastic brick, and hand it to you. Now, where does that plastic brick go? Directly to the landfill. Maybe someone could make the bricks the plastic bags are ripped from so that they can move on to another life as construction material or something.
Plastic bags themselves, however, may be soon disappearing. Some stores have stopped using plastic bags altogether. Other stores will eventually be forced to stop using them as we run out of oil to make the bags from.
Numerous amazing products can be made from corn husks. Corn husk spoons, forks, plates, bags.... practically anything made currently from plastic. And, better yet, nobody eats corn husks. Except, perhaps, pigs and goats.
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