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The Rise of the Asian Regenerative Ecobrick Movement

by

Russell Maier & Ani Himawati

Presented first at the Bandung Spirit Conference, Université Le Havre Normandie, Master's Degree Program in Management and International Trade Paris, France - February 12th, 2020 Version 1.0 Published by the Bandung Spirit Conference Subsequent versions published by the Global Ecobrick Alliance

www.Ecobricks.org/bandung

What is plastic?

Where does it come from?

Oil is nature’s way of sequestering carbon

Plastic comes from oil.

Oil comes from the Earth.

Oil is extracted and used for making fuels and plastics.

But what happens to the plastic once we’re done with it?

Plastic is either dumped, burned or washed away. Sometimes it gets recycled.

What about Industrial ‘Recycling’?

Up until 2016, half of all plastic waste intended for recylcling (7.35 million MT) from 43 difgerent countries was being sent to China. European countries lead in exporting (i.e. Germany, UK, Netherlands, France), contributing to 32% of all plastic exports, followed by the US and Canada 14% of exports to China.

Since 1950, only 9% of which have been recycled, 12% were incinerated and 79% have accumulated in landfjlls or the natural environment.

There are different grades of plastic. When recycled, plastic is down-cycled to a lower grade

The lower the grade the less the value. The less the value, the less like it is to be recycled again In the end a bottle is eventually recycled down into a plastic that can no longer be recycled.

There is a general lack of awareness around the world about the dangers of plastic. Plastic loose in the environment degrades into Toxins, microplastics and green house gases

Ecobricks are a simple solution that put plastic back to secure, circular and local use-- like nature.

Introducing Ecobricks...

Ecobricks Sequester Plastic.

Ecobricks terminally reduce the surface area of plastic, securing it from degradation by heat, sun, and friction.

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Ecobricks Represents Plastic that has been removed and secured from the biosphere.

The History of the Movement

 2000: PET bottles are fjlled with sand to make structures in central

america.

 Mid-2000’s: Ecobricking organically pops up around the world.  2010: The Global Ecobrick Alliance is formed, and goes open

source and mandalic.

 2014: 10,000 schools are ecobricking in the Philippines.  2015: First SMP school begins ecobricking in Indonesia (Bali)  2017: Jogja is the fjrst city to adopt ecobricking as a munipal

solution.

 2018: October, UK Ecobrick Movement ignites  2019: GoBrik launches and Brikcoin currency hits 100,000 BRK

Mechanisms of the Movement Regenerative Principles

Mandalic Collaboration

Ecobrick methods and resources are developed collaboratively and shared freely to the world. The Global Ecobricks Alliance shares its materials on Ecobricks.org using the Creative Commons BY-SA license

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Ecobricks are Open Source

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Learning from ecology, ecobricks are a cradle-to-cradle building block that can be used over and over again.

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Ecobricks Apply Circular Design

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Ecobricks unite rich and poor, east and west, young and old, men and women, and everyone in between.

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Ecobricks are Transcaste

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To the extent that designs and methods avoid capital, imported materials and petroleum powered machines the greater the adoption and independent empowerment of local ecobrickers and their communities.

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Ecobricks are local, non-capital and trans-petroleum.

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Ecobricks enable Personal Responsibility and Citizen Empowerment

We estimate that these stats represents the tip

• f the iceberg of the global movement – only 5-

10% of the actual numbers.

Movement Stats

Hydrocarbons under earth (i.e. crude oil

• r natural gas)

Single use plastic sent to landfill Industrially Recycled plastic Informal Burning Plastic

1 5 10 100 1000 years

Upcycled (or Poorly Ecobricked) Plastic

Industrially Incinerated Plastic Well Ecobricked Plastic Fossil fuels under the earth - no degration, no releases 3rd generation of plastic produced to replace consumption of 2nd Microplastics generated from photodegradation Ethylene, methane produced generated from photodegration Leached toxins (phlates, BPA, etc) CO2 generated (i.e. from burning, industrial, recycling, transportation, etc) Plastic put to local community use Dioxins released by low temp burning First generation of produced plastic

• serving global industry

2nd generation of plastic produced

• to replace consumption of 1st

Electricity generated from incineration Consumer Ecological Consciousness raised Blockchain value generation (BRK) Plastic indefjnitely secured through terminal reduction of net surface area and full earthen immersion. Toxic ash from burning/incineration

A Millenium View of Plastic

A comparison of plastic management routes over 1000 years

• r upcycled

• f 2nd gen

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zoom in to explore

• il required

• f plastic

• f plastic

• f plastic

• r upcycled

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Together we can transition from plastic to ever greener harmony with the cycles of life.

Terima Kasih!

The best ecobrick of all, is the

• ne that you don't have to
• make. Ecobricks are a solution

for today's plastic challenge. but for tomorrow, let's work together to live in a world that has a lot less plastic and a lot more organic.

This presentation is free to copy, share and remake. Download your free copy at www.ecobricks.org/bandung

Lead authors Russell Maier, Ani Himawati Illustrations El Tiburon Grande (Philippines), Jo Stodgel (U.S.A), Russell Maier (Canada), Astrid Gruber (Germany), Elena Malchanova (Trinidad). Fabianus Bayu (Indonesia)

Published on February 12th, 2020 at the Bandung Spirit Conference Paris/Le Havre, France And is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution – ShareAlike 4.0 International License