Recycled Building Materials Help Reduce Carbon Footprint in the UK

Lignacite, a UK based concrete masonry company, is hoping to lessen the carbon footprint of building materials with its world first invention of Carbon Buster; a carbon negative building block.

Most building materials have a rather high carbon stomp because of what goes into their manufacturing, along with the actual materials used. Carbon Buster achieves a carbon negative status because it takes less carbon to produce than the actual carbon composition. In order to achieve this, more than half of the materials that go into the block are recycled waste such as recycled cement, wood shavings, glass and shells.

Britain has a goal of zero carbon homes by 2016 and it’s these kinds of initiatives that are helping the nation’s aim actually very realistic.

[via PSFK]