“…The manufacturing of ceramic materials, including common bricks [22], nonstructural and decorative bricks [23], cementfree geopolymers [24], and glazed tiles [25] has found success worldwide when WTS partially replaces natural soils for civil building applications. Research in Brazil has suggested WTS as a material for civil construction [26] and assessed this waste's capacity to provide a variety of products [27], including structural bricks [28]. WTS used in alkaline soils also seems theoretically viable given that it can help restore damaged mining regions by immobilizing inorganic phosphorus in poor soils [29].…”