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Recycling - its nothing new!
Sunday 05 December, 2010
News Brief


We like to think that recycling is something new, however, the Victorians could teach us a thing or two.

Full Story:

At Specialist Aggregates we love to research products that are related to our core business and such is the case with the little known scoria brick.

In the latter part of the 19th centuary blast furnaces were producing millions of tonnes of pig iron a year, and with each tonne came a tonne of waste slag. (A complex silicate mineral not dissimilar to volcanic lava)

Along the River Tees near Middlesbrough the slag was tipped to make up boggy ground and to build flood defences. However, the real breakthrough came in 1872 when Joseph Woodward formed the Teeside Scoriae brick Company based on his idea of turning the waste slag into shiney blue bricks.

The molten slag was poured into brick shaped moulds allowed to set, and then annealed for up to three days to form a brick that was so durable that they can still be seen today.

Our images show unusual double hexagonal scoria bricks spotted in the entrance to Bowes Museum in County Durham, whilst traffic has polished the bricks to their characteristic blue colour on the ege to a cobbled parking area in near-by Barnard Castle.
The final image was taken at Tarmac's Ettingshall works in the late 60's where molten blast furnace slag was being poured into a cooling pit.

Not that the slag bricks were confined to the North east of England. Records show that in 1912 around 11 million bricks were exported around the world including to Canada the West Indies and throughout Europe.

Now that's recycling on a grand scale!!


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Recycling - its nothing new!
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