We’d love to answer your questions. Due to the high demand for our products, it might take a while to get back to you. Is your question one of the following?
We are running a few pilot projects in the Netherlands to test the complete process of returning waste from a donor building to the project for the first time. Visit our project page to find out more.
We work with carefully selected partners and don’t have the ambition to expand the number of partners right now.
It depends on the production location and products. Our waste mostly comes from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and England. Learn how our WasteBasedBricks are made.
We use demolition waste, industrial waste and by-products from several production and recycling processes. Learn how our WasteBasedBricks are made.
We are already able to make bricks from 100% waste. Yet, the machines we currently use at our factory aren’t able to process them. This will remain our focus for the coming years. Our mission stands: creating building materials from 100% upcycled waste with a positive carbon impact on the planet.
All our waste streams are tested on quality and consistency and comply with government regulations. Learn how our WasteBasedBricks are made.
All our products go through the standard market tests for bricks and are safe to use according to European standards. Learn how our WasteBasedBricks are made.
This depends on the calculation method you use. In preliminary research from an external agency, a 25% reduction in environmental cost indicators was reported with fully scaled-up production. In general, the WasteBasedBrick, in line with other bricks, is sustainable because of its longevity (70+ years).
You can download the EPD in our download centre.
With the WasteBasedBrick, we focus primarily on waste as a resource instead of digging up natural and limited resources. To decrease the CO2 footprint of the brick even further, we are testing more efficient firing curves.
Our products have the properties to last more than 100 years. Unfortunately, most buildings these days are being demolished much sooner than that.
The good news is that WasteBasedBricks can be recycled and used as ingredients for new WasteBasedBricks. You can download the EPD in our download centre.
You can download our sustainability document from our Download Centre.
The short answer is no. Not yet.
The factory that will produce the BioBasedTile on a large scale is located in Denmark. The Biomason EPD team is working closely together with the engineers in Denmark to calculate the environmental profile of the actual product made over here.
To prevent the circulation of multiple EPDs of the BioBasedTiles, we will be waiting for the new publication which represents the commercial product we are selling.
An Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is an independently verified and registered document that communicates transparent and comparable information about the life-cycle environmental impact of products in a credible way.
The primary component of traditional concrete is Portland cement. Portland cement is manufactured from crushed limestone (calcium carbonate). There are two main stages in the manufacturing of portland cement.
The first stage, calcination, requires heating limestone to temperatures greater than 800 degrees Celsius (~1,500 F), resulting in calcium oxide and carbon dioxide gas.
The second stage, clinker formation, combines calcium oxide with silicates at furnace temperatures greater than 1,300 degrees Celsius (~2,400 F).
Manufacturing 1 KG of Portland cement releases approximately 1 KG of carbon dioxide into the environment. Half of this comes from the calcination of the limestone, and the other half from the combustion of fossil fuels necessary to achieve the required kiln temperatures. Additional atmospheric byproducts of portland cement production include dioxin, NOx, SO₂, and particulates.
Instead of Portland cement, we use biocement to bind loose sand and rock. Portland cement is a calcium-silicate hydrate material that originally comes from liberating carbon from limestone through intensive heating, emitting carbon dioxide as a byproduct.
Biocement is a reversal of this process, where carbon and calcium are combined to produce a biologically formed limestone material. This means that high heat and fossil fuels are not required in the process, and BioBasedTiles use carbon as a building block, just like nature!
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