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Researchers from Flinders University’s Chalker Research Lab have developed a more sustainable alternative to making bricks by using waste products. The team used low-cost feedstocks to make lightweight but durable polymer building blocks, which can be bonded together with an.
Organic chemists at Flinders University are working on more sustainable alternatives, with an emphasis on building materials generated from waste products, because firing bricks and producing mortar and cement are relatively expensive processes.
Construction is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Flinders University researchers have now developed a polymer made out of industrial waste that can be formed into building bricks that bond together without needing any mortar.