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Ecobricks are great. You can get started right away to build simple furniture with them. Later you can create gardens and structures. This alone has inspired millions of folks around to start packing, building and saving tons of plastic from contaminating the biosphere.

But what if we could build even better, faster, greener and even more practical furniture and structures right awa with them?

This question has driven us for the last three years-- because if we could find the right answer, we could keep even more plastic out of local and global ecosystems and of course-- build great stuff for our fellow humans!

With the stakes high, for the last three years our R&D team, led by GEA co-founder Russell Maier, has been working on the premise that the true potential for ecobrick construction has remained untapped.

Afterall, ecobricks are solid, resilient and strong. Surely, we could do better than connecting into hexagons and triangular modules-- and if we could, it would provide a powerful and compelling incentive for folks around the world, concerned about plastic pollution, to ecobrick their plastic more-- and to dump, recycle and burn their plastic less.

With the stakes high, the GEA team explored dozens of ways in which we could connect ecobricks. Of course, our design process wasn't just based on function-- so too were we guided and constrained by the Earthen principles that guide the regenerative plastic transition movement.

After considering 3D printed joiners, joiners using re-molded plastic and even wood, we finally settled on bamboo as our medium of choice. When it comes to being green, bamboo is hard to beat! Widely available in South East Asia, it is a strong, durable and extremely versatile material. Best of all, bamboo groves and forests support biodiversity and their growth sequesters CO2 out of the atmosphere.

Oh... and bamboo is circular-- perfect for embracing a bottle!

ℹ️ Learn more about criteria of plastic sequestration.

ℹ️ Learn more about Earth's example.

Our first generation of ecojoiners enables cubic geometry. Ecojoiners can be connected together into cubes that connect to other cubes-- enabling matrices that can serve as the basis for a wide variety of structures and applications. Imagine minecraft for ecobricks! These cubic joiners enable creations of 3D like pixels.

So far, we've built chairs, shelves and tables. What more could we put together? The answer is up to you

Best of all ecojoiners enable spiral designs: when your done with your creation you can take and part and build another. But, there's more to it than that. When ecojoiners break or can't be used anymore, then they can safely composted as bamboo is entirely organic. Meanwhile, the ecobricks can be put to use in longer term constructions like modules or earthen constructions.

The key is having a plan for your cycles!

Learn about the Earthen principle of Spiral Design

Ecojoiners are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Please attribute all usages to "The Global Ecobrick Alliance, ecobricks.org" using the same license. Please use the terms 'ecobrick' and 'ecojoiner' to enable others to find and reference the core concepts.

What makes ecojoiners truly revolutionary is that they enable truly green constructions. We're not talking constructions that minimize their environmental harm. We're talking creations that literally make local ecosystems greener than they were before.

We've done the numbers: ecojoiners sequester more carbon and more plastic than they produce

Check our Ecojoiner Regen Report for our 600ml Aqua Ecojoiners to see a full breakdown of our carbon and plastic impact estimates