‘Crappy’ solution to home shortage

Melbourne – Australian scientists have come up with an ingeniously “crappy” way to recycle treated sewage sludge and turn it into bricks.

Biosolids are leftovers from the wastewater treatment process that can be used as fertilizer, in land rehabilitation, or as a construction material.

Around 30% of the world’s biosolids are stockpiled or sent to landfill, using up valuable land and emitting greenhouse gases.

Now a team at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, has demonstrated that fired-clay bricks incorporating biosolids could be a sustainable solution for two industries at once.

The research showed how making biosolid bricks only required about half the energy of conventional bricks. – Good News Network