Here’s some recycling news we will not take sitting down. It comes from the good folks at EcoGeek:
Sustainable Brick Made from Sand, Bacteria and Pee
It seems like pee, or more specifically urea, is becoming quite the sustainable ingredient…
These Better Bricks are created through a chain of chemical reactions known as microbial-induced calcite precipitation. Once all the ingredients are combined, the bacteria serves as a glue that binds the sand together, creating a brick that is as tough as a fired-clay brick or even marble and requires no baking to achieve that strength.
If Better Bricks replaced all traditionally-fired bricks, 800 million tons of CO2 emissions would be eliminated each year.
Remember when eco-wackos told us to put a brick in the toilet to save water? If you do that with these bricks, it would truly be the ultimate in recycling.
Source: EcoGeek.org
