PHOENIX – Pozzotive Plus Concrete Brick and CMU from Kingston Block & Masonry Supply LLC has been selected as one of BuildingGreen’s Top-10 products of the year by the editors of Environmental Building News and GreenSpec.

This eighth annual award recognizes the most innovative and exciting green building products added to the GreenSpec Directory during the past year or covered in Environmental Building News.

Pozzotive Plus Concrete Brick and Pozzotive Plus Concrete Masonry Unit (CMU) products are manufactured using up to 30 percent post-consumer recycled glass as a Portland cement substitute and an average of 50 percent post-consumer recycled masonry aggregate from local sources in the Northeast.

The recycled glass pozzolan, with the trade name Pozzotive, made by Empire Resource Recovery LLC, is ground to a smaller particle size then Portland cement and used in place of Portland cement, saving about one ton of CO2 emissions for every ton of cement replaced. Pozzotive Plus CMUs have been made with up to 90 percent recycled aggregate, though 50 percent is typical.

Compared to conventional CMUs and brick, Pozzotive Plus products require less energy to produce, are stronger, and have greater moisture and chemical resistance, according to the company. Both products meet and exceeds ASTM C-90 for Loadbearing Concrete Masonry Units and C-129 for Non-Loadbearing Concrete Masonry Units, and the brick meet and exceeds ASTM C-1634 for Concrete Facing Brick.

For more information on Kingston Block & Masonry Supply LLC, visit www.kingstonblock.com. Information on Pozzotive is available at www.empireresourcerecovery.com.