Check out this enviroloony article about a product that has the potential for a wonderful twist on a classic expression--"built like a shit brick house".
Bricks made from sewage - Yorkshire's latest gift to the world
Incinerated waste and oil can provide you with a carbon-negative home
Who can resist an email headed 'From bowel to trowel'? Not me.
As a result, I now know and can pass on, news of the latest product from my home city Leeds, whose ability to turn a penny from anything has long overtaken that of Birmingham, the rival workshop of the world.
The newcomer to the market? Bricks made from sewage, which Yorkshire Water and Leeds University have developed at the vast works in Knostrop, in gentler times the home of our famous moonlight painter Atkinson Grimshaw.
The innocent-looking blocks combine ash from incinerated sewage with vegetable oil to make bricks which are classified as carbon-negative because the oil comes from plants which have sucked out C02 from the atmosphere.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/the-northerner/2011/sep/15/yorkshire-water-leeds-university-sewage
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