Mendocino Ecological Learning Center
4651 Bear Canyon Road | Willits CA, 95490 | 707.456.0779 | Contact Us
Zero Waste Lifestyle!
“Building with Portable Landfill Devices (PLD)”
Date: May 2-3, 2009
Location: The Mendocino Ecological Learning Center, Willits,
CA.
Time: 9am – 5pm
Cost: Donation!
For information and directions contact us (707)456-0779 email at inquiry@melc.us
Website: www.melc.us
Join us for the first time this workshop has been offered in California
and learn cutting edge waste reduction, re-use and recycling techniques
and strategies, intended to help you lead a Greener lifestyle!
In a time when water and energy consuming landfills and recycling programs
are promoted as effective or even “Green” methods of waste
disposal, it is crucial to learn these new strategies! Americans use 2,500,000
plastic bottles every hour! Currently 86 percent of those plastic water
bottles become garbage or litter. Plastics make up at least 11 percent
(by weight) of municipal solid waste landfills. Recycling is an excellent
concept, but we waste more energy in reprocessing our recyclables than
we are gaining. Furthermore, to date no one has found a cost-effective
means of recycling food containers into new food containers. Recycled
bottles are not made into new bottles, they are used for lower grade plastics
to build things like synthetic fiber, strapping and playgrounds. Production
of plastic water bottles requires three times the water the bottle will
eventually hold. That's not even getting into the 17 million barrels of
oil or the 2.5 million tons of CO2 resulting from plastic bottle production
in the US each year.
This workshop will cover waste reduction, recycling, composting, Portable
Landfill Device (PLD) and others. In many countries around the world people
are building with plastic bottles filled with non-biodegrade garbage PLDs.
The bottles are used like bricks with mortar in between them and then
plastered over with stucco, cement, etc. This building technique is incredibly
easy and cheap! Houses, schools, water tanks, art and so much more are
being created with these free plastic construction bricks in places like
Africa, Colombia, Honduras, Ecuador, Bolivia, Costa Rica and India. Examples
can be seen here at our partner organization Ereciclaje http://www.ereciclaje.com/pld
This workshop will have a hands-on aspect to give everyone a chance to
see just how easy it is to make and use these plastic “bricks”.
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