Perception of Traditional Small Scale Brick-making owner on firewood usage for Brick-making process

Abstract

Traditional brick-making industry – traditional kilns that use firewood as burning fuel have been assumed to be energy-inefficient and polluting and may have negative influence on global warming and environmental sustainability. This study was intended to investigate small scale traditional brick-making owner's perception on firewood usage in relation to environmental sustainability. Ten small scale brick-making owners were selected randomly to be depth-interviewed. The results reveal that brick-making owners have had awareness on environmental issues and realize the drawback of firewood usage but, they find that it is still difficult and expensive to find another source fuel to fire their brick kiln.