A team of several students from Prasetiya Mulya Business School in Indonesia have won the 2009 Global Social Venture Competition for their “EcoFaeBrick“ - an affordable and easily manufactured,sustainable building material made from cow dung. According to reports, the bricks are 20% lighter, with a compressive strength 20% stronger than clay bricks- and their production doesn’t rely upon quarry mining techniques harmful to the local environment.Through the use of 75%cow manure and a cured biogas heating process that reduces the brick factory’s CO2 emissions significantly over traditional wood fire heat, the EcoFaeBricks help to provide an affordable economic solution to a waste problem while curbing the destruction of the local environment caused by clay quarries.
The group claims that the process will raise participating farmers’ incomes by 53%, which will not only help to raise their quality of life, but lead some former clay miners to begin to farm.
EcoFaeBrick's Website: EcoFaeBrick
Global Social Venture Competition Website: GSVC
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