Green cement production is scaling up – and it could cut the carbon footprint of construction

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Green cement production is scaling up – and it could cut the carbon footprint of construction

A new first-ot-its-kind green cement plant in Redding, California, has 70% lower emissions than conventional cement production. Fortera, CC BY-NDAside from water, concrete is the most-used material in the world, with about 14 billion cubic metres being used every year. Of that, 40% of that is used to build places for people to live. If you were to pour that amount of concrete to make a paving slab ten centimetres thick, it would cover all of E…