{"id":300487,"date":"2025-07-29T06:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/300487\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T06:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:21:15","slug":"sheffield-company-launches-eco-bricks-that-absorb-carbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/300487\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield company launches eco-bricks that &#8216;absorb carbon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Support manager Anna Simmons explained the bricks were created using soil excavated from construction sites which would otherwise go to landfill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This was then combined with a newly-developed binder to make the bricks stronger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Mr Hanein said the binder was not like the kind used in traditional bricks which is created by heating limestone to about 1,000\u00b0C to create a material called lime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said this process created carbon dioxide as a by-product as well as requiring fossil fuels to be burned to reach the very high temperature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Instead, he said his team had developed a way to create lime at room temperature which released carbon in a solid form instead of a gas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Simmons added the bricks were &#8220;fully recyclable&#8221; and, after being crushed, could then be turned into new bricks or used in soil as a fertiliser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are currently manufactured in Wuhan, China, then imported into the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, she said the company was planning to move production next year to further reduce its carbon footprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Support manager Anna Simmons explained the bricks were created using soil excavated from construction sites which would otherwise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-300487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114935082791297051","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}