{"id":3061,"date":"2019-06-14T06:44:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T06:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:20","slug":"one-brick-at-a-time-building-a-better-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/14\/one-brick-at-a-time-building-a-better-future\/","title":{"rendered":"One Brick At A Time: Building A Better Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>By UN Environment<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the World\nHealth Organization, 800 people die hourly from air pollution. Fueled by a\ndesire to tackle air and plastic pollution in West Bengal, India, Abhishek\nteamed up with his construction engineering classmates at Jadavpur University,\nAgnimitra Sengupta, Ankan Podder and Utsav Bhattacharyya. In 2017, they founded\nthe social enterprise Qube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a desire to take\nplastic waste out of the environment and turn it into something useful, Qube\u2019s\nmain product is Plastiqube, a construction brick made entirely from plastic\nwaste. It uses discarded plastic water bottles, polythene bags, and plastic\ncontainers\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/one-brick-time-building-better-future\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment According to the World Health Organization, 800 people die hourly from air pollution. Fueled by a desire to tackle air and plastic pollution in West Bengal, India,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}