The idea of a young woman who was an architecture student in 2017, utility that has old clothes and no longer used raw material for making bricks. Today the same idea continues to yield results, producing these building materials for a variety of uses and uses in homes. It stands out with its heat and sound insulation feature.
Clarisse Merlet was impressed by the large amount of textile waste produced each year in her home country of France. According to the Ecoinventos portal, it is estimated that four million tons of clothes are thrown away here each year. But that’s a staggering number, which is nothing compared to the 17 million tons dumped into the United States in those years. And instead, only a third of all discarded clothing is recycled in France, and even less, 15% in the US.
Construction is definitely a big consumer of natural resourcesIt also causes large amounts of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere during its extraction, conversion and transport. Aware of these influences, he decided to create his own bricks from used clothing.
This example of the circular economy became evident at FabBRICK.decorative, insulating and design bricks for multiple uses, although they are not currently suitable for the construction of structural works, Clarisse Merlet hopes to achieve this in the near future.
They are produced in several different sizes and can be used for: manufacture of tables and other furniture, lamps, partitions for separating rooms and other similar elements.
Basic component of bricks torn clothes, where Merlet bought land from a supplier in Normandy. But its website also warns that those who want to donate materials collect it on their premises and turn them into furniture or wall coverings.
Each brick uses the equivalent of two or three tees and any material can be used, not only cotton, but also polyester, elastane, PVC and others. The company states that the recovered material is first analyzed to determine its reusability in this process.
remnants of shredded clothing mixed using an ecological adhesive It was developed by Clarisse Merlet herself and then pressed into a brick mold. Such a mold uses mechanical compression to form the bricks, so no more energy is required than a human worker would use to apply pressure.
Right after, wet bricks are removed from the mold and left to dry for two weeks before using them. They are fire and moisture resistant, and their main advantages include excellent heat and sound insulation.
The company was born in 2018 and has already produced over 1,000 in just two or three years. 40,000 bricks representing 12 tons of recycled textile waste and recovered for other uses, preventing natural resource extraction and emissions to the atmosphere.
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