There is no lab. She isn't that smart.
It's a shithole that buys Indian plastic and mixes it with sand and recycled plastic.
Notice there aren't giant piles of empty bottles.
But there are bags of polyethylene granules from India... and sand.
This story is a scam.
Also, how large can a building even be using these things and how fast would it burn down?
She'd make more money counterfeiting Legos, but that might take actual scientific knowledge of about a high school level.
Not only that, the polymer will either dry with age and loose cohesion or it will melt in the african sun and loose cohesion.
This is like inventing carbon fiber rocket engines. Sure it's neat but its a nigger of an idea.
Oh shit I just imagined walking barefoot on soft ooey gooey plastic path with hot sticky plastic sticking and burning into my foot. Good thing the sand is in there to help retain the sun's warmth. Ouch!
I can't get past the lovely smell of burning plastic resulting from the bricks' construction. Not to mention the lovely environmental effects of the toxic fumes produced.
And she is selling them for the same price as cinder blocks.
Fucking niggers, they'll even dilute plastic to make a buck.
If these were from waste plastics then leaching toxins, etc, would be an issue. Those could be stabilized with the correct additives, but probably not worth the trouble (or energy input.)
Then there is the fact that I'm sure no analyses are being done to determine the structural performance of these bricks.
Now I'm just nit picking, but her tolerances also seem like 3" +/- 1".
I could see these bricks as a weird special use material, but not specifically what that could be.
That's what I'm thinking as well, the toxic off-gassing will have you in hospital pretty quick. Not all plastics are for regular human contact. You couldn't pay me to live in a plastic house.
SCIENCE.
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