567 Cape Talk Radio and Cape Brick
In celebration of World Environment Day and the WWF Environmental Hero campaign, 567 Cape Talk Radio breakfast DJ Aden Thomas has been interviewing selected “Environmental Heroes”. On 6 June 2008 Cape Brick owner Jean Tresfon was invited for an interview to expound on the company’s green bricks.
The following is an excerpt from the “heard on air” link at www.capetalk.co.za
ADEN THOMAS Friday, June 06, 2008 6:20 AM
Environmentally friendly bricks Jean talks about 50% of the energy footprint coming from building. Dumping is also a big problem in Cape Town. They use recycled construction and demolition rubble to make their bricks so they do not need to quarry the stone and mine the sand. This means they save 1 mill kW a month which is the equivalent of power needed for 1000 large houses. They also reduce their carbon footprint by not having to transport their product from sites out of town. They use a special sieving process to recover the sand and stone that has made up the concrete and remove the wood and paper and steel contaminants so that 80% of their bricks' make-up is from re-cycled goods. The bricks cure naturally and do not need to bake which also uses large amounts of fossil fuel. He concludes that the bricks have full SABS approval and while the bricks cost the same as other bricks, there is a huge saving for the environment.
Guest: Jean Tresfon
Organisation: Cape Brick
Position: Owner
Website: www.capebrick.com
To listen to the actual interview please right-click on the link below and save the MP3 sound file to your computer. CLICK HERE.