Glass isn't as easy to recycle as we might think, so we need as many ways to turn it into new products as we can devise.

Bricks made of discarded glass and recycling-waste ash have been shown to insulate better than regular bricks, while also requiring less energy to produce. And of course, they additionally use ...

The red bricks are up to 40 percent fly ash. If a market can be developed, it would give Illinois coal a rare advantage over low-sulfur Western coal, which some energy producers favor because of ...

“The total ash generated in both the units of power plant is about 1,600 tonnes per day, approximately. Last year, we generated around 4,75,074 metric tonnes (MT) of fly ash,” he said.

Each 35-metric-ton brick can be made from concrete debris that would normally end up in a landfill. At a coal plant shifting to renewable power, the bricks could be made from coal ash.