Remixing Cement
- Outlook & Trends, Sustainability
- May 22, 2023
The cement industry is a top source of CO2 emissions, but abatement pressures could prompt efforts to reimagine the business. As the second-most-consumed product globally (after potable water), it is used in almost everything we build – from our homes and cityscapes to dikes and dams. And contributes about a quarter of all industry CO₂
READ MOREBy Damon Carson, Repurposed Materials, Inc. If you’ve watched the trucks hauling debris away from a construction site, you have some idea how much construction and demolition (C&D) debris is produced. But you might not have considered just how immense the quantity of debris produced on a nationwide scale. The EPA estimates that 230 to
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READ MOREOriginally published in Construction Climate Challenge on March 26, 2020 It is becoming easier to track the carbon footprint of building materials through a range of new initiatives. This includes a new cloud-based tool backed by a group of high-profile companies and NGO’s, which is making that information free and available to everyone. Research funded
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