REUTILIZAR (Eco-brick Movement)

From Quarteira’s community to the world 🌎 🌍 🌏

We produce 300 million tons of plastic each year worldwide, half of which is for single-use items.

The purpose of the Eco-brick Movement is to sensitize the community to the importance of reusing single-use plastics, giving them a new purpose.

The main objective is to bring together as many people as possible to this cause, giving them the mission to create Ecological Bricks from home, filling plastic bottles with other smaller plastics that are not recycled.

In the future, we want to create a method where the community and large companies can discard this plastic in a space where these Eco-Bricks will be created. With this method, we intend to hire people in vulnerable situations, thus creating inclusive job opportunities.

Ecological bricks can be used as a building material because of their durability, water resistance and flexibility. Thus, the aim of this project is to build street furniture and art pieces using the collected ecological bricks.

According to SDG 13 - Climate Action -, it is urgent to take measures to combat climate change and its effects. End-of-life plastics are an environmental problem and usually end up in the oceans, landfills or burned. We believe that one of the best answers to this problem is to reduce their consumption, however, because of the constant use of plastic and its inevitable application in so many products, we believe that this solution presents an immediate and accessible alternative for everyone.

For every 1kg of plastic transformed into an ecological brick, 3.1 kg of CO2 are no longer emitted into the atmosphere.