NAN, Nov 12 (TNA) – Nan hospital and local environment network has used recycled plastic bags and bottles to build toilet walls with help from the army engineers.
Recycled plastic bottles were stuffed with plastic waste to make free building materials or ecobricks to replace regular bricks in the construction of the toilet walls at the garbage sorting building in the hospital’s premises.
Dr. Natthorn Darapongsathaporn, deputy director of Nan Hospital said it helped reduce the amount of plastic waste, generated in the hospital and also save the hospital’s budget in the toilet construction.
International researches found that ecobricks, made of mixed plastic waste and bottles are as durable as bricks.
Hospital staff and volunteers from the provincial probation office take turn to stuff plastic bottles with plastic bags.
The idea will be introduced to local communities, he said. (TNA)
