A ceramic product and a method of producing the ceramic product produced by pretreating the feedstock from at least of iron/steel recovery, recovery of at least one non-ferrous material, sieving, crushing, milling, aging, and thermal treatment, receiving as a first powder a first recovered material from the pretreating, receiving as a second powder a second recovered material from the pretreating, combining the first and second powders with water to form at least one of an extrudable paste and a granulated mixture, forming a green body from the at least one of the extrudable paste after extrusion and the granulated mixture; drying the green body, firing the green body to form the ceramic product, and cooling the ceramic product.