These startups are trying to reduce the massive carbon footprint of concrete
But is the industry ready to embrace carbon reduction?
At a material seed in San Francisco, the concrete loaded into ready-mix trucks now includes captivated CO2. The plant, owned by Central Concrete, a northern California business unit of U.S. Concrete, recently adopted engineering from CarbonCure, one of a handful of startups trying to address one of the world’s biggest sources of releases. The process of meeting cement, which is used like adhesive to viewed concrete together, is the source of around 8 %~ ATAGEND of the CO2 shot into the atmosphere globally. If service industries were countries around the world, it would be the third-largest emitter after China and the United States-and as countries like China rapidly build, the problem is also growing.
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