Innovating traditional building materials in Chembe, Malawi: assessing post-consumer waste glass and burnt clay bricks for performance and circularity
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...Investigating the use of WG in concrete, Ismail and AlHashmi (2008) found that concrete with WG as an aggregate exhibits lower water absorption rates (a lower water absorption rate will contribute to increase properties of concrete and elevate the quality closer to ‘extremely good concrete’ where levels of water aborbtion rate are close to 5–6% (Khatib and Mangat 1995; Neville 1995)....
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...…from poorer public services, including access to waste management services, as well as fewer opportunities for employment or economic development (c.f. (Kombe 2005; Thornton 2008; Doan and Oduro 2012; Kalina 2020; Kalina and Tilley 2020; Kleemann et al. 2017; Nuhu 2019; Tilley and Kalina 2020)....
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...Waste glass and natural sand have been found to have similar physical properties, however WG has a lower water absorption rate than sand, by about 14% (Jani and Hogland 2014)....
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