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New homes rise from rubbish
04-02-2007 · EurekAlert!Imagine if you could turn old rubbish into new houses. That's exactly what civil engineer Dr. John Forth in the School of Engineering wants to achieve with the invention of a building block made almost entirely of recycled glass, metal slag, sewage sludge, incinerator ash and pulverised fuel ash from power stations.
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