Hitting a brick wall

Robert Booth (Editorial October 15) states that it is wasteful that 2.5 billion bricks are destroyed every year in the UK. New bricks cost about 4p each. If he would like to invest in reclaiming bricks and then attempt to sell them, he will find out the reason.James Doran, Herefordshire

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