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14 / 04 / 2010

Efficient bricks for India

The project will combine pioneering technology with respectful measures with the environment and the rights of the infancy

Zeroemissions has started the development of a new CDM project in India. Located in the state of Orissa, the “FaLG Brick Project” implements a pioneer technology developed by the Institute for Solid Waste Research & Ecological Balance, INSWAREB, for brick manufacturing.

Based on the chemistry of hydration of the raw materials and their ability to harden with water curing only, this technology allows the project promoter, Magnum Concretes, to manufacture bricks without firing them in kilns, as it happens in the traditional process.

One of the main raw materials used in this technology is fly ash, a waste by product from thermal power plants with very high polluting potential. By using this raw material, the project also contributes to reduce the pollution caused due to the disposal of these ashes.

The FaLG brick manufacturing plant will be the first automatic FaL G production line in India. Being automatic, the manufacturing plant will avoid seasonality and, thus, will contribute to improve families’ stability and reduce migration in the region.

Being an automatic production line and not subjected to seasonality, the project will avoid the children labour and exploitation in the brick sector in India, which has traditionally hired children for the manufacturing process. The FaLG Brick Project will not only contribute to the reduction of more than 11,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year, but also will avoid the hiring of children in this hazardous industry, will contribute to reduce migration (since the manufacturing process will not be subjected to seasonal patterns) and will contribute to the stability of the workers in the plant, who will not be obliged to migrate with their children to other states. Hence, directly, the proposed project activity will contribute to mitigation of climate change through the implementation of environmental friendly production processes. And indirectly, through contributing to the familiar stability of the personnel in the plant, will reduce migration requirements and facilitate children schooling in the region.

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