{"id":4223,"date":"2019-07-30T14:08:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T11:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4223"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:27","slug":"flip-flops-to-building-blocks-ivory-coast-uses-plastic-waste-to-build-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/30\/flip-flops-to-building-blocks-ivory-coast-uses-plastic-waste-to-build-classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Flip-Flops To Building Blocks: Ivory Coast Uses Plastic Waste To Build Classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Inna Lazareva<\/strong>, THOMPSON REUTERS FOUNDATION<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Africa was estimated to\nhave 4.4 million metric tonnes of mismanaged plastic waste in 2010, a figure\nscientists warned could rise to 10.5 million tonnes in 2025 if nothing is done.\nGlobally, it was an estimated 32 million tonnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With millions of tonnes of plastic ending up in landfills and\noceans each year, engineers and architects are coming up with novel ways to\nmake use of the durable commodity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Too\nmuch plastic and not enough schools are scourges of modern life many countries\nface. Now a factory in West Africa will try to tackle both by transforming old\nflip-flops and car tyres into bricks to build classrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nfactory in Ivory Coast will be the first of its kind in Africa and aims to\nproduce enough plastic bricks to build 500 classrooms across the country by\n2021, funded by the UN children&#8217;s fund UNICEF and a Colombian social\nenterprise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plastic\ngarbage works like Lego said UNICEF&#8217;s head of education in Ivory Coast, Sophie\nChavanel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ninterlocking bricks &#8211; cheaper and lighter than many conventional building\nmaterials &#8211; require no cement, are fire retardant and stay cool in hot weather,\nshe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\nwill cost an estimated $14,500 to build each plastic-brick classroom, and they\nare badly needed. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20190729172808-tkkp1\/\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Inna Lazareva, THOMPSON REUTERS FOUNDATION Africa was estimated to have 4.4 million metric tonnes of mismanaged plastic waste in 2010, a figure scientists warned could rise to 10.5 million&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4224,"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-4223","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\/4223","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=4223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}