![]() ‘byblock enables communities, corporations, and governments to make use of their plastic waste while cleaning up the planet. their idea is to partner up and license the ‘blocker’ machines. ![]() To have an even bigger positive impact on the environment, byfusion has made the block-making system available to waste management companies, governments, municipalities, and environmentally conscious corporations around the world. the company also sells furniture products made from the recycled plastic blocks such as a planter and a coffee table set. check out the video below to see how durable they are.Īpplications for the byblocks include retaining walls, sound walls, sheds, terracing and landscaping. the byblocks also don’t crack or crumble like standard blocks. what’s great about this method is that it requires no chemicals, additives, nor fillers and it generates 41% fewer greenhouse gas emissions than concrete blocks. it’s then superheated using byfusion’s patented steam-based process and fused into blocks measuring 40cm x 20cm x 20cm and weighing 10kg each. The second step is to shred the plastic into smaller pieces. in the summer of 2020, the company acted as the take-off partner for ocean voyages institute/project kaisei, who pulled over 100 tons of waste from the great pacific garbage patch. byfusion collaborates with ocean clean-up operations to collect discarded waste that’s ended up in our marine environments. The first step is to find the plastic, which isn’t so hard. ![]() to do this, the company has developed a patented blocker system that transforms discarded plastic into a high-performing building material called ‘byblock’. ‘plastic isn’t the problem’, says byfusion, ‘the problem is that we didn’t have a good plan for its future.’ founded in 2017, byfusion is a los angeles based start-up that set out on a mission to address the increasing plastic pollution in our oceans. Reducing plastic pollution brick by brick ![]()
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