Can paper pellets be used in the manufacture of bricks?

Answer 1

I'm not sure about paper pellets but various plant fibers have been added to stone based building materials to give them strength and flexibility, since the beginning of civilization.

Answer 2

I have not come across this one. I am not sure that the use of paper would meet the necessary standards from a fire protection or strength point of view, but if it was locked within the block, who knows, it might work. A brick or block only has to last 30 mins or so to pass fire safety standards (cant remember the precise figure)

If paper pellets were suitable, they would be an amazing lightweight aggregate that would revolutionise the brick and block industry where lightweight aggregates are becomming more scarce and more costly.

Current common lightweight aggregates include Furnace bottom ash from powerstations, slag from iron & steel furnaces, pumice imported from places like Italy, Expanded clay where pellets of clay are heated to say 1,200 degrees c (or so) and then expand 3 or 4 times, but there are others.

We are currently investigating the use of 2 other lightweight aggregates, both of which are technically feasible but may not stack up from a cost point of view and i know of other research which is looking at using microwaves to expand various raw materials.

If you do know more on the use of paper pellets in bricks or blocks, let me know, i would be very interested.

Answer 3

Paper can be used in the manufacture of many everyday objects, and in many cases such diversion from the norm is offered as a ecologically friendly alternative.

However, the reason why we don't see paper pallets, or paper coffins, or even paper tyres (an idea muted on TV not too long ago) is that ecological though these ideas are, economically they most certainly are not!

We live in a market economy, and unfortunately have still not shown our preparedness to accept that the damage we have done to our planet needs to be paid for. We still expect governments to fix things for us. We'll happily by recycled toilet tissue if it is competitively priced, but if it's 10% more expensive, as a consumer base, we will not!

In short then it is possible to make bricks from paper, as it is possible to make fireguards from chocolate. About as much use too, until something changes.

Answer 4

As a brick , is made of clay or clay like material then the answer to this question has to be an emphatic no. However paper is used in many forms in constuction, classically in the interior walls of traditional Japanese houses, in modern homes as compressed paper panels, again as lightweight interior walls. It has been used also to build functional paper boats capable of safely carying people too.

Answer 5

Why not, the cheapest to manufacture the better. I bet the insurance companies will be increasing their building policy. Perhaps the name for the new bricks could be holy smoke

Answer 6

Possible, the Israelites used reeds to make bricks that were used in building pyramids in Egypt.
The people of Bukoba, in Tanzani use a type of grass in mud that are used to build their mud houses, these grass make the walls to become stronger.

Answer 7

y not if u can walk on custard u can use paper pellets in the manufacture of bricks!!! doesnt mean they'll be ne gd but u can try!

Answer 8

Yes. You can buy a production kit which allows you to form bricks from old newspapers etc. I seen these a number of years ago in Cornwall, they used them there to burn on open fires! Cheaper than coal.

Answer 9

I dare say they could but there would be a potential hazard
The dry rot fungi Serpula lacrymans can send its strands along brickwork and between bricks. It feeds on cellulosic material and paper is cellulosic.
Just a thought.

Answer 10

Possibly.