Growing role of concrete in sand and climate crises

Summary: Concrete production poses multiple sustainability challenges, including resource over-exploitation and climate change. Here we show that growing global demand for buildings and infrastructure over the past three decades has quadrupled concrete production, reaching ∼26 Gt/year in 2020. As a...

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Main Authors: Takuma Watari, Zhi Cao, André Cabrera Serrenho, Jonathan Cullen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-05-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223008593