The Group has partnered with local start-up EcoBricks on a breakthrough solution to upcycle all the seven types of plastic waste, including mixed plastics and composite plastics, into sustainable construction materials, presenting a viable circular economy solution to urban plastic waste.
The low-energy, 100% cold production process of EcoBricks involves no heating or melting of waste plastic that would produce harmful emissions or pollutants. Up to 50% of aggregates in concrete bricks can be replaced with plastic waste, meaning that up to 2,000 kg of plastic waste can be diverted from landflls for every 100 square metres of EcoBricks produced, equivalent to 200,000 plastic bottles.
EcoBricks has found its first application at Hong Kong Gold Coast. More than 15,000 bricks have been used to pave the promenade and line Leaf Path, which have been upcycled from 5,400 kg of plastic waste taken from 560 used washing machines. The Group will continue to apply EcoBricks at other suitable properties such as Olympian City and The Fullerton Ocean Park Hotel Hong Kong, as well as strengthening engagement with recyclers, NGOs, tenants and customers in upcycling plastic waste and supporting the circular economy.
EcoBricks has been awarded the Gold Medal with the Congratulations of the Jury at the 2022 Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions.
Ecobricks project at Gold Coast
1–7
plastic types
to be recycled
100%
Cold process
Up to
50%
of natural aggregates
can be replaced
15,700+
ecobricks used
5,400 KG+
of plastic wate
upcycled
2,000 KG
of plastic waste
diverted from landfill
for every 100 m2 of
ecobricks
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Sino-EcoBricks partnership
