How Bricks Made From Invasive Seaweed Clean Mexico's Beaches | World Wide Waste | Business Insider
In North America, millions of tons of a type of seaweed called sargassum washes up on beaches every year. The bad news is that it contributes to beach erosion and disrupts the ecosystems making it an invasive species but in Mexico, a businessman called Omar Vazquez found an opportunity to put that waste to use.
His “Sargablocks” turns the seaweed into bricks for use in low-cost sustainable construction.
Between me and sargassum, there was love at first sight.
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