Tunisian professor turns waste into bricks - in pictures
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
