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gates with ones produced from fly ash has several global environmental benefits. From the other side the demand for aggregates in construction industry is so high that it will easily absorb the entire produced annual quantities of fly ash/liquid waste, removing them from the list of industrial wastes. Also, all open quarries are subject to heavy environmental scrutiny, significant upfront investment and costly heavy machinery maintenance. We should therefore be cognizant that the planet Earth is a closed system; nothing is gained or lost. In the fundamentals of natural equilibrium law, all matter in this closed system makes the transition from one stable form into anoth- er. Our responsibility is to adjust our lives by following this rule of natural equilibrium law, transitioning all industrial by-products into other useful products. The conversion of fly ash/liquid waste into 30 artificial aggregates and their immediate use in concrete, asphalt and road base production is reversing fly ash to become part of that natural equilibrium transition we need to sustain.