Giving Compass' Take:

· Writing for Causeartist, Trang Chu Minh shares how “Recycle Man" Dr. Binish Desai has used an innovative approach of recycling to build toilets and address sanitation issues in India. 

· How can this eco-friendly building material be used to create other necessities? How can donors support the use of more eco-friendly materials? 

· Read more about eco-friendly recycling and creating a sustainable ecosystem through ecorecycling. 

With a vision to upcycle industrial waste from landfills, Binish Desai founded Eco Eclectic Technology in 2016, creating bricks from paper waste to build houses and toilets across India, a country where 40% of the population still defecates in the open, according to the World Bank.

UN estimates show that a staggering 2.4 billion people worldwide continue to lack access to basic sanitation services, including toilets or latrines. To address the dismal sanitary conditions in his country, at only 11, Desai has come up with the first prototype of his signature eco-friendly brick using paper and chewing gum, and has since made it his mission to perfect this eco-friendly building material.

What? P-blocks are hand-pressed from paper sludge, a non-recyclable residue from paper production that traditionally has no value, and a specially formulated gum that’s used as an organic binder to ensure greater durability.

Read the full article about recycling industrial waste by Trang Chu Minh at CauseArtist.