Various kinds of industrial dust wastes were recycled by a wet ceramic process. Compounding various dusts gave allowed us compositional variation of dust wastes which originated from various places and conditions. One of the main problems for recycling wastes is caused by compositional variations. Success in recycling depends on how to control compositions and maintain the allowed purity level in the wastes. Grouping of dust wastes into three categories and compounding were introduced to raw material preparation processes for the successful recycling of various dusts. Pretreatment processes were also important to stabilize heavy metals in the raw materials. These processes consist of ion exchange, control of electrolyte concentration and pH etc. After these processes, industrial dust wastes were turned into safe, ecological construction materials such as bricks or lightweight aggregates by a final sintering process.

Keywords: Lightweight aggregates, recycling, ecological construction materials, heavy metal stabilization