Aligarh Municipal Corporation has come up with a innovative way of dealing with the city’s waste. The civic body has tied up with a waste management company to make eco-friendly bricks which aim at utilising 100% of the waste. Unlike the usual bricks which use soil, sand, and lime these bricks are made of waste, concrete and cement.
“These bricks are eco-friendly. Through this we are 100 percent utilizing the waste. We will be awarded at Swachh Survekshan-2018 Awards in Indore for our efforts,” Municipal Commissioner Satya Prakash Patel told ANI.
A2Z Waste Management Private Limited has put forth its idea of ‘eco-friendly’ bricks to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath last year.
“Bricks prepared in our plant in Meerut have been used in Lucknow and Gurgaon, with the recent passing of the proposal in the municipal board, this magic bricks will be used in more areas now. A single brick weighs 17 kilogram and is worth Rs 35,” project head Sam Singh told ANI.
The authorities are even looking forward to decrease the weight of the bricks for better results.
However, the idea is not heard of. In fact, Gujarat-based entrepreneur Binish Desai came up with the P-block bricks made out of industrial waste and other waste which otherwise would have made its way into landfills. The 24-yr-old designed the first sample of these bricks at a mere age of 11 and so far he has helped recycle more than 400 tonnes of industrial waste and successfully built more than 1,000 toilets across India.
