Bad milk could make good bricks

GUANGZHOU: Milk tainted with melamine might be used to make bricks and cement, authorities here said yesterday.

Wang Fan, director of the Guangzhou food safety office, told China Daily that when milk is burned in a kiln it produces a residue that can be used in the manufacture of bricks and cement.

Also, the cost of disposing of contaminated milk in this way is much lower than if it is treated as hazardous waste: about 700 yuan ($102) per ton, as opposed to 1,800 yuan per ton, he said.