DRINKABRICK
A small change for a BIG impact
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WHAT IS DRINKABRICK
Drinkabrick is a new concrete construction system. It makes traditional Concrete Walls, but they have plastic air bubbles on the inside.
WHY
-Bottling companies start providing their water/soda inside a "brick" instead of bottles.
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-The new container is nothing but a change of shape (same plastic, same production system)
-The shape is standard, thus the system can be certified
-The resistance and structure is taken by the concrete. Plastic only acts as internal mold (no structural request)
-The system can be reinforced with steel re bars (just like bricks and concrete bricks)
-Two industries collaborating and benefiting from each other. One get almost free material, the other one gets a second use for their residue and lowers plastic contamination. Both contribute to lower worldwide environmental Plastic Pollution and at the same time lowering worldwide housing deficit.
Short Life Cycle
THE PROBLEM
The problem of PET containers is numbers. While the standard in bottling has become the PET bottle because of it resistance, lightness, toughness, transparency and cost, the problem relates to the amount of production. There is a huge problem that comes with the enormous amount of plastic bottles that remain after consumed their content. Just in Santiago 2.000.000.000 bottles are produced annually. In the US, 2.000.000 bottles are being consumed every 15 minutes. After a recycling closer to 6%, remaining bottles are considered waste and have to be disposed in dumps, while an important percentage goes to polluting landscape, river and oceans. Collaterally, we aim to address the housing deficit, especially in the underdeveloped countries.
THE OTHER PROBLEM
Some 330 million urban households worldwide currently live in substandard housing or are financially stretched because of housing costs, according to the report. In the developing world, 200 million households are located in slums; in developed countries like the U.S., the EU, and Japan, more than 60 million are financially stretched.
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..., a modern, industrial approach to housing construction and delivery is needed to build housing quickly, efficiently, inexpensively, and in a scalable fashion.
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RICHARD FLORIDA Solving the Global Housing Crisis
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THE IMPACT
We address the problem of plastic pollution of PET containers. These are the most common plastic containers for water, juice and Soda and they are the standard for the bottling industry.
Our organization will help Bottling companies by improving their product life cycle in terms of environmental impact, transportation cost, Social enterprise responsibility, differentiation, and marketing.
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DrinkaBrick contributes to the construction industry. A very economic and hopefully abundant one since the bottling company pays it as a regular container and the second use is almost for free.
Current attempts for building with plastic bottles is not considered a construction system since it is not standard, thus it cannot be calculated and therefore approved by counties and it cannot be protected by insurance companies. It also has a resistance to build with waste and with an element no suit for building. With our system, the bottling companies start delivering their product inside a “brick”. •
The Team
Marcos Ortiz
Architect
Maria Jose Vargas
Industrial Designer
You
Collaborator
We firmly believe that the future will require collaboration between industries in order to take care of the inmense amout of material that it is currently being produced. We believe we can contibute to the planet by taking care of an inmense amount of this material by reusing it in a positive way that can help the people at the same time that protecting the planet.