[Strawbale] trashcrete

[Stone Tool]

	The discussion of straw / clay slip construction brings to mind the 
papercrete articles I have read and various other systems that people 
have experimented with.  There seems to be a resistance to cement by 
some people obsessed with embodied energy, but personally I find it a 
more desirable material to work with than clay slip.    The straw / clay 
slip system is very similar to the papercrete system but uses clay 
rather than cement........   There would appear to be no reason not to 
resort to cement rather than clay slip, and cement will set up more 
rigidly and firmly though it might not bond as well..... I don't know 
about bond.  Then there is the lime stucco / cement lime stucco / 
synthetic stucco, etc.... possibility.

	My thinking on this whole thing is that perhaps if a system such as 
straw / clay slip is to be used that perhaps other trash could be mixed 
in as well........ shredded paper, cardboard, Styrofoam packing, egg 
cartons, "peanuts", and troublesome bureaucrats and politicians (the 
latter two might create an undesirable miasma unless freeze dried) to 
form "trashcrete" blocks.

                                 H.W.