Producing with waste and at a low cost

"We started to seek solutions for materials that are not given adequate treatment." With this initiative, four young men from the UNA (National University) of Costa Rica created Ecomuros, a factory that plans to build containment walls with used tires and other debris as a base
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That’s how Jose Eduardo Mejia, a student of topographical engineering in the UNA in Heredia and one of the creators of Ecomuros, explained it.

"To develop the project, we started from two points, the ecological part which is to stop burning tires and use them to build walls, and the economic part, in which we proved that the cost of erecting a wall is lowered some 60%,” he said.

In addition, Mejia mentioned that "there will be no investment in materials because the tires would be donated by companies that collect them." Natalie Mora, Jonathan Martinez, and Caleb Pichardo are also part of the company.

This is quite an innovative initiative that we in TicosLand.com believe in is of great significance, not only because it allows the reuse of wastes, but also the possibility of changing the way and costs of construction.