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
This post was last modified on December 27, 2010
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On a similiar (?) topic.....
I seem to remember reading an article in a small Scottish newspaper that someone in Devonshire had recently built a residence out of used razor blades.
They were calling it their ....BRIT Schick-house.
( The audience may now groan. )
Uhm... Brick pizza oven or fireplaces using this will just be disgusting ok... I just don't understand the minds of these people.
Wow... never crossed my mind either. I'll be giving a 2nd glance at them, now...
EEEEWWWW!!!! KQ, I didn't even think about that...gross
Gives new meaning to "She's a Brick House"!
What is it with Lefties and the word "sustainable"? They just love that word "sustainable."
...Except when it comes to an economy, of course. Then, good intentions win over reality.
What else should we expect from people with shit for brains?
Are people building brick shit houses out of these? Sort of a #1 meets #2 thing.
Well...ain't that the shit!!!! (Sorry, but someone had to say it).