Article 41J2E 'Liquid gold': students make world's first brick out of human urine

'Liquid gold': students make world's first brick out of human urine

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Rebecca Ratcliffe
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The bio-brick created by students in Cape Town mixes urine with sand and bacteria, which they say is a world first

Students in South Africa have created the world's first brick made from human urine.

The bio-brick was produced by students from Cape Town, who collected urine from specially designed male urinals at the university's engineering building and mixed it with sand and bacteria.

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