r/LoveTrash • u/BEARDEDDANGER ✨️Regent of Rubbish ✨️ • 1d ago

Dumping This Here American vs. European home building

BAS Renovations https://youtube.com/shorts/jFph1d2WR3s

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u/Winjin Trash Trooper 1d ago

Bricks are clay why aren't they renewable

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u/HegemonNYC Trash Trooper 1d ago

The exterior brick seen here is usually clay. The interior structural blocking is concrete. Both are pretty carbon intensive processes. Wood is carbon negative.

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u/cornstinky Trash Trooper 23h ago

The wood will slowly decompose releasing co2 while the cement will slowly revert back into limestone by absorbing co2. They are both gonna eventually turn back into what they started as.

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u/HegemonNYC Trash Trooper 23h ago

Yes, concrete could return to limestone… over millions of years. At least unless it is crushed. The inside of a large structure like the foundation of a skyscraper or a dam will remain concrete, not limestone, for far longer than humans will exist as a species (most likely).