Collection and Storage
Collecting plastic bottles and inorganic trash is something that everybody can help with. Take a big bag or sack, and go find a place where there’s a lot of trash! Be careful, and don’t go anywhere where you don’t feel comfortable.
After collecting trash, make sure that it is all clean before you store it anywhere. Rinse it with water and then leave it in the sun to dry. You need to be sure that there is no organic material left on the trash.
Store the bottles and trash somewhere safe and dry, and out of the sun. The community itself or a member of the community may have some sort of shed which would be a suitable place for storing bottles, trash and completed eco-bricks.
Correct technique for making eco-bricks
Eco-bricks should be stuffed full of trash until you can’t fit any more in the bottle. Although eco-bricks have no structural integrity in the bottle school, it’s important that they are all hard like bricks,