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Junk from construction sites can now be blended to form building blocks that suit any home or building design.

Radish, one of the recycled brick models from StoneCycling, is made of 100 percent waste. The maker also offers 95- and 75-percent versions. Image Source: StoneCycling

Experimenting with materials in making sustainable building products, Netherlands-based startup StoneCycling has successfully created bricks entirely out of waste materials from glass or ceramic plants and demolition sites, and rejected clay from brick makers.

The bricks are said to help lessen the production of greenhouse gases, carbon footprints and energy use. Another interesting feature of the recycled bricks, aside from it being environment-friendly, is that it can come in light, dark and reddish, rough and smooth, and speckled variants that suit any home or building interior or facade, suggesting that going “green” need not compromise aesthetics.

StoneCycling’s bricks could make it big in the industry as the environment-friendly building trend continues to be appealing for building materials makers and buyers. In fact, many architects and designers now prefer to use sustainable materials. The US Green Building Council estimates that up to 40 percent of this year’s new nonresidential construction would be sustainable and “green”. Also, the green building industry will indeed be profitable, reaching $364 billion by 2022, according to market research firm Grand View Research.

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