Luxury Housing Trends & Home Improvement Ideas

If you’re looking for a practical and eco-friendly material for your driveway, walkway, or garden path, here’s a substance to check out:

GraniteCrete is a combination of pre-consumer recycled aggregate, gypsum by-product, fine clays and colorant. It costs 1/3rd less than concrete, and it’s supposed to age better and be less likely to develop cracks. It’s designed to look more like a natural path than other materials such as concrete, brick pavers, and asphalt.

What’s green or eco-friendly about the stuff?

GraniteCrete doesn’t contain any oils, synthetic polymers, emulsions or plastics, and it is made from pre-consumer recycled mining by-product. Also the material is “absolutely porous, addressing storm-water and heat island environmental concerns and yielding high LEED points in up to three categories of the LEED rating system.”

You can get GraniteCrete in six natural organic colors, or you can have a custom color made up. The only downside is that it isn’t recommended for climates with prolonged freezing temperatures in the winter.

http://www.granitecrete.com/