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The interior of a guest house built with compressed soil bricks in Bizerte. Established in 2011, Soib has had more than 600 clients

Abdelmalek Ghannem, general director of Soib brickmakers, with soil collected from a disused iron mine, in Bizerte, northern Tunisia. All photos: Reuters

A worker shoveling soil from the mine, which closed 20 years ago, to make bricks

The bricks are made by compressing the mining waste soil

A worker lays the bricks in rows

Former university professor Abdelmalek Ghannem says his company does not create waste, but values waste

Soib says its bricks reduce energy and building costs, create jobs and reduce gas emissions

The interior of a guest house built with compressed soil bricks in Bizerte. Established in 2011, Soib has had more than 600 clients

Abdelmalek Ghannem, general director of Soib brickmakers, with soil collected from a disused iron mine, in Bizerte, northern Tunisia. All photos: Reuters

A worker shoveling soil from the mine, which closed 20 years ago, to make bricks

The bricks are made by compressing the mining waste soil

A worker lays the bricks in rows

Former university professor Abdelmalek Ghannem says his company does not create waste, but values waste

Soib says its bricks reduce energy and building costs, create jobs and reduce gas emissions

The interior of a guest house built with compressed soil bricks in Bizerte. Established in 2011, Soib has had more than 600 clients

Tunisian professor turns mining waste into bricks — in pictures

Abdelmalek Ghannem left teaching job for project turning soil waste from an iron mine into ecological building bricks

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December 13, 2022

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Updated: December 13, 2022, 7:57 AM