1 Introduction Over the past few months, the European institutions have published a spate of documents concerning this topic, most notably “The Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe”, in which it...

Under the headline “Building the future with bricks”, the trade magazine Zi Brick and Tile Industry International cooperated with Messe München to hold “Heavy Clay Day” for the fourth time at...

Ziegelwerke Leipfinger-Bader (Lower Bavaria) is, according to the manufacturer, the first German brickworks to guarantee recycling for its solid masonry clay bricks and blocks. For many years now, the...

Resource efficiency is something that most of us already perfected as schoolchildren, trainees or students: the MiniMax system. The goal is to get the maximum benefit from minimum input. But as...

1 Numbers and facts Around 60 bill. t/pa abiotic raw materials (mineral resources, energy resources, ores) are consumed worldwide today, almost 50% more than in 1980, with an upwards trend. The...