adding butts can cut the energy needed to fire bricks by up to 58 per cent.
Fired-clay bricks incorporated with cigarette butts were also lighter with better insulation properties – meaning reduced household heating and cooling costs.
Importantly, bricks incorporated with 1 per cent cigarette butts maintained properties very similar to those of normal bricks.
— sciencedaily.com
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I'm pretty fired up about this.
^ Afraid the researchers might be blowing smoke?
perhaps, but even so, there's no sense in getting fumed about it.
The article mentions the bricks are lighter and have better insulation properties. What does this do to the flame-spread and smoke-developed index of the material?
.... seems we have exhausted the puns on this one.
Butts 2 Bricks. Catchy.
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