Why Manufacturing is Cool

With manufacturing plants striving to implement environmentally friendly strategies, part of your job as a facilities manager is to oversee the implementation of green projects within and without the station. You can go green by using recycled materials for various purposes around the facilities compound. Salvaged bricks offer an excellent opportunity for green projects. This article highlights brick recycling ideas that everyone involved with your manufacturing plant will be impressed with.

Facility Benches – Employees working in manufacturing plants have to catch a break in between their hectic schedule and what better way to provide resting benches around the facility using recycled bricks. While the factory can purchase ready-made wooden, concrete, or aluminum benches, you can save the business a lot of money by outsourcing recycled blocks and creating beautiful and comfortable seats around the compound. The advantage of using salvaged bricks is that they are very cheap and it does not take a lot of time to set them up. Additionally, you can create different bench designs and patterns without necessarily engaging the services of a designer.

Yard Art for Plant's Staff Children -- With vast space available in virtually all manufacturing plant facilities, you can opt to hold parties for staff and their kids. As such, if you are wondering what you can do to engage staff or children during such occasions, then wonder no more. For instance, recycled bricks are a source of great fun for the kids. All you have to do is designate different areas within the facility for playing and provide the salvaged bricks. Ask staff and their families to bring colors, and you can give these too,  and get the children painting. When the activities of the day are over, the children can carry the bricks they have painted home as memorabilia. It is an inexpensive and enjoyable way to bring fun to the manufacturing facility during family days for instance. 

Paving Extended Walkways -- As mentioned earlier, the space surrounding manufacturing plants is vast; therefore, most have long walkways that lead from one section of the plant to another. With different materials available for paving walkways, recycled bricks are a viable option when you want to pave such extended sidewalks which are characteristic of manufacturing facilities. The reason is that you can get as many recycled bricks as possible to meet the facility's walkway paving needs at low rates or even free of charge.