Choose a product produced in a circular manner:
Describe the product you have chosen.
Old and used bricks that are collected, machine-washed, and then inspected for re-usage in the construction of new buildings.
Why do you consider it circular?
This business (Gamle Mursten) significantly reduces the amount of energy consumed during the production of new bricks by using old ones from dilapidated and/or vacant buildings.
Which principles of CE models are being used?
- Design out waste and pollution
- Reusing products and materials
What are the economic and environmental benefits?
Economic: Reduces material costs for both small and large-scale construction projects. This brick recycling process also creates value using structures that are essentially useless (something that Baltimore could really benefit from).
Environmental: The reduced need for brick manufacturing eliminates at least 150 tons of CO2 emissions released into the environment.
Which one of the “5 business-models” does it belong to?
Long Life/Life Extension.
Please add a link to the company’s site.
It's great that modern companies in various industries are starting to think about the environmentally friendly consumption of not only energy resources, but also the resources of the earth. Mankind overspends the resources of our planet every day on the production of new building materials. and the fact that there is a technology to reuse materials such as bricks greatly facilitates the environmental situation of soil resources on earth and prevents their possible occurrence in the future. We should think about this type of recycling and other materials (glass melting, concrete work, etc.)