Go Live in Trash!

If you don't mind me asking, do you consider yourself an environmentally conscience individual? Do you keep a look out for new ways to lower your environmental impact? Should humans be more responsible with their actions? Well, if you answered yes all I can say is...

YOU SHOULD GO LIVE IN TRASH!

Yeah, you heard me, you should go live in trash. No, no, no I'm not trying to insult you. I'm just trying to inform you of a new way to help reduce your impact by choosing to live in a house built with BituBlock!

BituBlock? What's that? Good question meritorious reader. BituBlock is a really bright idea that Dr. John Forth of University of Leeds developed in order to help save resources and reduce emissions for concrete. BituBlock is a high-performance product that is about six times stronger than traditional concrete block. It’s made by mixing waste products like recycled glass, metal slag, sewage sludge and incinerator ash with a sticky binder called bitumen, also used in road paving. The mixture is compacted in a mold and heat-cured, which oxidizes and hardens the bitumen

While high recycled content is a vital part of sustainable construction, BituBlock’s landfill diverted ingredients are just part of what makes it so groundbreaking. Concrete is the most widely-used construction material with over ten billion tons produced annually. About 7% of global CO2 emissions come from concrete production. The primary source of CO2 emissions generated by concrete manufacturing is Portland cement, responsible for 74% to 81% of total CO2 emissions. In BituBlock, the bitumen binder replaces the Portland cement. 

So when I say "Go live in trash," all I am suggesting is that if you find yourself ever thinking about building or buying a house it might not be a bad idea to make it/see if it is made with BituBlock.