He just works twelve hour days making kilns and furnaces for customers in the manufacturing and food processing industries.

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And the people who own these brick kilns are immensely rich.

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Depressed demand for building materials means his company has turned otherwise dormant kilns for firing these materials into ovens for destroying old tires and drugs seized by police.

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All the farmers had to start working in brick kilns.

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The organisation says those at risk range from a 1920s chemical silo in Billingham and lime kilns at South Shields, to a greenhouse with a potting shed in County Durham and Britain's first ever bird research station in Northumberland.

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In contrast, reducing emissions of the sooty particles known as black carbon, which are given off by inefficient combustion in cooking fires and brick kilns, and by dodgy diesel engines, offers rapid, huge and tangible public-health benefits (see article).

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The couple built their own kilns.

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In the Hasnabad area, where 750 Chowduli families live on the edge of ponds and canals, 40% of students don't show up to elementary school for half the year, teachers say, when their parents travel to work in brick kilns several miles away.

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