In August, a pair of architects will move into their new home in Rotterdam. Its rising walls are built of tan-colored bricks that, to the eye, seem like your typical building materials, but they are ...

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. These bricks ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. The new brick can be manufactured with a high ...

Disposable nappies contain a mixture of materials that makes their waste difficult to manage. Researchers are examining whether some diaper waste can instead be incorporated into construction ...

Recent studies reveal that integrating ashes from cigarette filters into clay for brick-making can be a game-changer. Using ...

Bricks made 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 additionally use ...

Read the original version in Portuguese here. In its quest to develop circular products, Chinese company Yi Design has been creating various bricks from recycled materials. These products offer ...

Read the original version in Portuguese here. According to recent research, the global fashion industry generates around $2.4 trillion annually. This staggering figure, unfortunately, is matched by ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Nzambi Matee hurls a brick hard against a school footpath constructed from bricks made of recycled plastic that her factory turns out in the Kenyan capital. It makes a loud bang, ...

Cigarette butts are one of the world’s most common forms of litter, but the researchers have found a way to reuse this waste by incorporating it into bricks. Their research explores how discarded ...