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      • Moab Ubuntu Blox Workshop – Dec 2018
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      • Costa Rican Ubuntu-Blox Press Buildout at Finca Morpho – Feb 2018
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      • Building with Ecobricks – Innovation Academy, Santa Fe High School – Jul 2017
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      • LANL NMSBA Program – Determining the Emissions of Conventional and Alternative Insulation Types
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      • Geodesic Design Course with the Innovation Academy, Santa Fe High School
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      • Ecobrick Doghouse
    • 2014
      • Building with Ubuntu-Blox with Inventor Harvey Lacey
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PLAN FOR PLASTIC

Open Source Solutions for the Plastic Waste Dilemma

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The first permanent Ecobale / Ubuntu-Blox structure in the USA is getting plastered! 1800 pounds of plastic in the walls, diverted from the Caja Del Rio landfill in Santa Fe in partnership with a dozen local businesses! Lathing the corners, and doing the bullnoses on the french doors and window of the Ecobale Shed a few weeks back with my dad. I think it's going to be too cold soon to get the exterior plastered this year but who knows! Hi everyone! It's been a while and I wanted to give an update and a bit of an intro about myself and the work with plastic moving forward. My name is Jo Stodgel and I am the founder of Upcycle Santa Fe which has since been rebranded into Plan 4 Plastic. I am currently finishing up a 120 sq ft structure, the walls of which are made with nearly 2000 pounds of plastic. Ecobales! Shown here is the compression, leveling and anchoring of the laminated wood top plate to lock the structure together. The walls are composed of about 1600 pounds of bagged, compressed and baled mixed plastics from our past plastic collection services in Santa Fe. Don't send plastics to the Landfill... send them to the Wallfill. Packed out these corner frames with some Ecobricks and spare plastics recently in preparation for glass bottle windows and exterior stucco on the Ecobale Shed! We can send plastics to the Landfill or we can utilize them as the Wall-fill! Here is an example of how plastic bottles stuffed with plastic (Ecobricks) can be layered horizontally in a 2x12 stud frame construction. Gaps are then filled with plastic film / bags (or even spray foam) to maximize insulation value. Happy Earth Day to the world! It's been quite some time since we've posted here but we're still here working with plastic in Northern New Mexico and excited to share some new projects soon! We are in the process of rebranding to Plan 4 Plastic and revamping our website so stay tuned! Our new storage digs for all of our collected and compressed plastics. These #ubuntublox will soon be used for some projects on the land here. Happy Earth Day. Happy Nature Day. Happy Animal Day. Happy Human Day!

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