Vecor Building Systems is using waste from coal power plants to make sustainable building materials. Coal power plants produce about a billion tons of waste each year, called fly ash. More than half of it goes to landfills and ash ponds. Fly ash is an environmental liability because it makes land uninhabitable and the particle-size dust pollutes the air. Vecor, a finalist in this year's Asian Innovation Awards, hopes to help eliminate fly-ash liability by recycling the waste into valuable raw materials and high-quality bricks, blocks, tiles and pavers. Vecor was founded in 2007 in China. In 2008 the company acquired its global license and now has offices in Australia, Hong Kong, China and Italy.

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