Recycled Brick Walls Save Water

Dornob Design:

More than just its composite materials, however, built-in grooves are designed to funnel water for gardening or even long-term underground storage.

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Comments

[Thermodynamics]

01:41 AM on 11/14/2009

If there is BPA in the plastic it will leach into the water. That is not good even for runoff, because it will in up in rivers or estuaries.

Plastics composed of polyethylene or polypropylene (numbers 2 or 4 or 5 on the bottoms of bottles --- Rhyme 2, 4, 5, stay alive--- ) are probably OK for the bricks because they are usually free of plasticizers such as BPA.

[jsarets]

10:29 PM on 11/13/2009

I've been arguing for some time that we should be making masonry blocks and pavement tiles out of biomass and/or sand bound in recycled thermoplastic. I couldn't get funding.

[PlayTOE]

04:59 PM on 11/13/2009

Prime example of "GreenWash" where things just look green ...
(Last I heard, most water falls on the roof, not the walls, and a simple trough will collect water with or without river motif bricks)

[jsarets]

10:23 PM on 11/13/2009

Yeah, but the main advantage is the materials used to make the bricks.