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How a UK Factory Is Making Bricks from Construction Waste
Lucas and Luna visit a brick factory in the UK that turns 95 percent of its raw material from demolished buildings into new bricks, cutting carbon emissions by 80 percent compared to traditional clay firing. They walk through the process: crushing, sorting, pressing, and curing with waste heat from a nearby data centre. Lucas shares the numbers — 30 million bricks a year, 40,000 tonnes of waste diverted from landfill. Luna asks why this model hasn't scaled faster, and they talk about the regulatory push from the UK's new embodied carbon tax on construction materials, passed in late…
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