Expanded cork, construction waste and human urine feature in this roundup of brick alternatives, designed to reduce the masonry unit's embodied carbon footprint. After concrete and steel ...

Instead, we could simply reuse the bricks and building waste that has already been made and turn them into new bricks. This would also help with the fact that limestone is now an infinite resource.

Building bricks from waste materials Polymer blocks pave way to more sustainable construction Date: August 1, 2022 Source: Flinders University Summary: Firing bricks and making mortar and cement ...

That system is unlikely to go away, but the Gent Waste Brick proposes an alternative: Local waste streams can be diverted, reprocessed and reused as a kind of locally sourced building material.

Bricks made partially of discarded glass and recycling-waste ash have been shown to insulate better than regular bricks, while also requiring less energy to produce. And of course, they ...

Researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Australia have developed special “energy-smart bricks” that can be made by mixing clay with glass waste and coal ash.

“A Brick for Venice” explores the potential of the natural and readily available waste sediment material for construction use. It is a low-carbon construction product so it can become readily ...

The RMIT University engineers collaborated with Visy – Australia’s largest recycling company – to make bricks with a minimum of 15% waste glass and 20% combusted solid waste (ash), as ...

“In this study, we tested a new type of brick we can make from waste cooking oil, mixed with sulfur and dicyclopentadiene (DCPD). Both sulfur and DCPD are byproducts of petroleum refining.