Filipinos turn volcano's ash, plastic trash into bricks

Workers at the Binan City Materials and Recovery Facility (MRF) monitoring the brick-making process from collected volcanic ash from the recent Taal volcano eruption to process them and turn them into cement bricks in Binan. - AFP

BINAN: Ash spewed by a Philippine volcano is being mixed with plastic waste to make bricks in an inventive response to the country's persistent problems of pollution and frequent natural disasters.

The Taal volcano burst into life nearly a week ago, sending towering dust columns into the sky and leaving nearby Binan city coated in fine grey powder.