Who made the bricks that went into making your house?
One would imagine they might have been made in a UK brickworks, perhaps in the SE in an area where suitable clay is found. However, this is not necessarily the case and they may in fact have been made by children in brick works far from the UK. Another example of supply chain issues and a lack of transparency.
After a year's investigation, proud to see our revelation of child and bonded labour in UK brick imports on the front page of @Politico this weekend
— Disaster Trade (@DisasterTrade_) April 24, 2023
The UK imports 400 million bricks each year, many of them made in terrible conditions
Read more here:https://t.co/e72PhAf3HU
Image: Alan Parkinson - shared under CC license
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