Brick shithouses. 03.01.2012

Source: The Financial Times. 03.01.2012.




Encos, a Leeds University spin-out company has produced brick prototypes using sewage slurry from a treatment plant near Leeds, backed by Yorkshire Water. Says Jon Briggs "carbon negative bricks could avoid the need to deposit the ash generated by incinerating sewage in landfill sites".

Disposal of slurry from the sewage treatment plants is an environmental burden for Britain's water companies. Encos hopes to get its bricks on the market within two years if it receives funding of 10m for the commercial product and could provide up to 2% of the 1.1bn UK output of bricks.



We'll all be shitting

bricks when Yorkshire Water makes

our muck into brass.



By 'eck lass, tha' brick

shithouse is built like a brick

shithouse made of...shit!