By Abu Siddique With rising demand for infrastructure development in Bangladesh, both private and public, the demand for bricks has increased over the decades. To meet the demand, production has also risen. The entire process damages the country’s environment in two ways: Increased air pollution and decreased soil fertility, as the current brickmaking methods depend on topsoil. The Department of Environment, estimates that the nation’s 7,000 or so brickfields currently use 3,350 million cubic feet of topsoil or clay annually as a raw material to produce around 23 billion bricks. Usually, after…