Ecobrick

"ecobrick" — no space, hyphen or added capitalization is the recongnized spelling. This is the recognized spelling of the ecobrick’s Wikipedia entry and url: wikipedia.org/wiki/ecobricks.

In the past terms such as "bottle brick", "eco brick" and "eco-brick" have been used to refer to a PET bottle packed with plastic. In 2014, plastic transition leaders around the world conferred and agreed that our concept deserved its own full fledged and normalized word. The ecobrick wikipedia page was updated accordingly in 2016.

NOTE: Other brick making technologies borrow the term ecobrick by using a variety of spellings. Corporations such as Nestle have attempted to appropriate 'ecobrick' for their cement block corporate social responsibility programs. However, plastic sequestration in a PET bottle is the recognized wikipedia disambiguation for the non-hyphenated spelling.

Plastic Sequestration

The goal of ecobricking is the sequestration of plastic. This is the official term as defined and recognized on wikipedia.

Ecobricker

Someone who makes an ecobricks or who has committed to ecobricking all their plastic

Ecobricking

The act of sequestering plastic inside an ecobrick.

• “Ecobricks are made with plastic trash."
  
  The Global Ecobrick Alliance, approaches plastic from a regenerative and ayyew philosophy. As such we do not refer to plastic as ‘trash’. This is the antithesis of ecobricks which views plastic as a resource. Please avoid associating ecobricks with “waste” or “trash” and rather as "used plastic" or "discarded plastic". See our Ayyew Principle.
  
  
• “Ecobricks are for building schools and homes”
  
  Although you can build structures with them, 99% of ecobricks are applied in projects that use less than 20 ecobricks at a time (such as seats, furniture, tables, garden beds, etc.). The GEA advocates small and useful applications as a means of empowering a wider section of society. See Ecobrick Applications
  
  
• “Ecobricks are for developing countries and poor people"
  
  Ecobricks are for anyone who wants to take responsibility for their plastic, and are relevant around the world. Currently, there are more ecobrickers from the UK on our GoBrik app than anywhere else in the world. See GoBrik country stats



• “Ecobricks are for places where recycling isn’t an option”
  
  Ecobricks are ideal for places with recycling! In fact, avoiding industrial recycling and incineration is precisely why most ecobrickers ecobirck. Intentionally, ecobricks help keep plastic out of the recycling industry. This prevents the creation of more factories, prevents the emissions of running these factories and prevents fuel burned for exporting and transporting to and from these factories. Keeping plastic out of industry also prevents the inevitable dispersion of the plastic that has been shown to eventually result. See Plastic Sequestration
  
  
• “Ecobricks are a Sustainable Development technology”
  
  The GEA explicitly differentiates itself from “sustainabity” and “development” paradigms. Instead: Ecobricks are a non-capital, collaboration powered, regenerative technology. See our principles
  
  
• “The GEA is an NGO”
  
  The Global Ecobrick Alliance is not a company nor an NGO. We distinguish between these two organizational structures and call ourselves are a not-for-profit Earth Enterprise. See About us

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Galley of Stock Ecobrick Photos

We've assembled a gallery of wide ranging of ecobrick related photos that you can freely use under our CC-A-SA-4.0 license.

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Direct Media Enquiries

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• CNN Indonesia | 60 minute Interview with Desi Anwar, Ani Himawati, and Russell Maier on the Ecobrick movement

• Korea TV | Ecobricks Feature on National Korean TV

• Indonesia, Jogja TV | Ecobrick Convergence Featured on Jogja city TV

• Indonesia, NET.TV | Ecobrick Spread in Jogjakarta and the Jogja Ecobrick Team Featured on NET.TV

• Philippiines, Spot.ph | The history of ecobricking in the Philippines.

• Independent Documentary | Solving Plastic One Bottle at a Time in the Northern Philippines: 10 minute documentary on Russell Maier, Irene Angway and the spread of Ecobricks in the Norther Philippines.