Hazardous Bauxite Red Mud and Ferrous Slag Management to Produce Sustainable Construction Materials

Abstract

INTRODUCTION In one of his interviews, the most celebrated modern-day cosmologist, [1] said that “pollution and human “stupidity” remained the greatest threats to humankind.” He claimed that air pollution had increased 8% within the last five years, and the authors of this paper are convinced that most of that is due to municipal and industrial wastes. According to the authors of this article, the best strategic way to prevent or postpone as much as possible this global ecological tragedy, scientifically predicted by Hawking, is to replace the raw materials with industrial waste. Hawking calculated that, at the current pace, the temperature of the atmosphere would rise, leading to the death of humankind in the next 300 years. It is known that the most significant air pollutants come from industrial and municipal waste dumps. From this, it follows that scientifically based waste disposal will be a crucial factor for the survival of humanity.