Cape Town - Few would think there was any connection between a sea shell that you find on the beach and a brick used to build a house. And just to be more outlandish, who would have dreamt that human waste would one day be a part of the construction industry.
The person who knows exactly what you’re on about is Vukheta Mukhari, a master’s candidate in civil engineering at UCT, who with fellow science boffins, has managed to produce a brick that looks and feels like any other brick, but is made from human urine. Next week at the 25th Design Indaba in Cape Town, he and his eco brick-making team, will be letting the public into their secret and asking industry to support and back their “green” ideas.
They are more than “ideas”, he said. This world-first innovation is the prototype for transforming the building and fertiliser industry and offers enormous opportunities for the recycling of human waste.
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