{"id":798139,"date":"2026-10-10T14:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798139\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T14:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:02:11","slug":"the-us-produces-millions-of-tonnes-of-rice-waste-each-year-now-people-are-building-homes-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798139\/","title":{"rendered":"The US produces millions of tonnes of rice waste each year. Now people are building homes with it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">In Africa, for example, new construction usually uses concrete and suffers from poor quality. &#8220;It\u2019s like the worst of both worlds,&#8221; says Ariana Karamallis, director of global engagement at housing non-profit Build Change, based in Colorado. When using innovative materials like rice husk, she adds, it&#8217;s crucial to find a &#8220;sweet spot&#8221; between affordability, scalability and relating to the community \u2013 and to avoid testing novel techniques on the most vulnerable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Africa, for example, new construction usually uses concrete and suffers from poor quality. &#8220;It\u2019s like the worst&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-798139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}