Shirasu block," which utilizes the water-permeable properties of shirasu to promote greening by placing turf on top of it.
Kenichi Sodeyama, 49, of the Kagoshima Prefectural Industrial Technology Center, is researching ways to utilize the ash. Shirasu blocks" are laid on roads and open spaces. Because they allow water to pass through, plants can grow and cover roads and rooftops with greenery. When they were laid between the tracks of a streetcar in Kagoshima, noise was also reduced. In Kagoshima Prefecture. photo taken September 23, 2013. The Yomiuri KODOMO Shimbun No. 136, page 2, October 3 of the same year [Ash accumulating problems, collecting and discarding... research to make it useful].
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