Aa a part of Sharp Greenerator program, P.T. Sharp Electronics Indonesia (SEID) held Ecobrick Workshop to with a social enterprise, Waste4Change at Cico Resort, Borgor, Indonesia on September 10th for reducing plastic wastes in the region. Unlike other Sharp Greenerator programs, this workshop was also open for non-Sharp Greenerator people.

Sharp Greenerator members and volunteers slicing plastic wastes and filling plastic bottles with the pieces

Ecobrick is a movement to let people manage their own waste by turning plastic wastes into useful items. Bricks made at the Ecobrick movement, are plastic bottles filled with used plastic pieces, and can be used as a functional blocks for building furniture, walls, benches, and etc.

In the Ecobrick Workshop, Sharp Greenerator members, volunteers, NGO partners, and school teacher leaned how to make an ecobrick from scratch: Each participants sliced their plastic wastes into small pieces, and stuck them into plastic bottles. Then, ecobricks are glued together to be a “strong” ecobrick (ecobricks need to reach 210 grams at minimum to gain strength).

Gluing ecobricks for making “strong” ecobricks

Simple ecobricks (left), and strong ecobrick (right)

This workshop is expected to encourage participants to reuse plastic wastes more, and lead to reduction of plastic wastes in the future.

Sharp Greenerators and volunteers participating in this workshop