{"id":87134,"date":"2019-01-28T23:02:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T07:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/bricks-made-from-human-waste-could-be-the-future-of-the-construction-industry"},"modified":"2019-01-28T23:02:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T07:02:33","slug":"bricks-made-from-human-waste-could-be-the-future-of-the-construction-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/bricks-made-from-human-waste-could-be-the-future-of-the-construction-industry","title":{"rendered":"Bricks Made From Human Waste Could Be The Future of The Construction Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bricks-made-from-human-waste-could-be-the-future-of-the-construction-industry2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have heard the term Sh\u2026 Bricks, but never thought I would live the day to hear it literally. Waste is an issue, and a growing global population will create more waste, and it needs to be addressed. The supply of waste is endless. People who find innovatiive ways to use it as a raw material will prosper Once sewage is drained of water, treated, and dried \u2013 what the heck do you do with it? Well, some of it ends up as fertiliser, but a massive 30 percent of our poop leftovers is sent to landfill to rot, or just sits in storage. What a waste.<\/p>\n<p>Especially when, according to researchers from Australia\u2019s RMIT University, using these \u2018biosolids\u2019 in bricks could be a surprisingly effective way of repurposing all that former sludge.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/using-biosolids-for-bricks-could-help-make-construction-way-more-sustainable\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/using-biosolids-for-bricks-coul...ustainable<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard the term Sh\u2026 Bricks, but never thought I would live the day to hear it literally. Waste is an issue, and a growing global population will create more waste, and it needs to be addressed. The supply of waste is endless. People who find innovatiive ways to use it as a raw [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}