By 2025, it is expected that 2.2 billion tons of construction waste will be created globally every year. In the UK, 136 million tonnes of construction, demolition and excavation waste was generated in 2016, 61% of the total UK waste, up 4.5% on 2014.
Anything we can do to reduce, reuse, recycle, is clearly to be welcomed.
Here's a development from Japan, that uses two waste streams to make something better:
Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, a part of The University of Tokyo, have developed a new procedure for recycling concrete with the addition of discarded wood. They found that the correct proportion of inputs can yield a new building material with a bending strength superior to that of the original concrete. This research may help drastically reduce construction costs, as well as slash carbon emissions.
Wood waste makes recycled concrete stronger than ever: https://t.co/UNZeHYaVO0 pic.twitter.com/znl6PMCOHr— Ben Coxworth (@bencoxworth) February 21, 2020
