Using Pollution As a Resource
A bright idea  Go ahead, take a guess what the stylish floor tiles in this restaurant are made of. They contain pigment from black carbon — yes, as in the extremely harmful stuff belched out by cars and factories.
Carbon Craft Design, a startup launched by Indian architect Tejas Sidnal, aims to capture and reuse this cruddy byproduct in beautiful, sustainable ways.
The idea is to capture these carbon emissions before they get into the atmosphere. That, in turn, may improve air quality. There's another plus side to the eye-catching, rustic tiles and bricks the startup produces. Their high carbon content makes for an especially strong building material and people in the architecture and engineering communities are calling it a "winner" for the construction industry. |
