Climate-friendly concrete paves path to green construction

By Francisco "A.J." Camacho | 07/23/2024 06:19 AM EDT

A California company says it has developed a novel way of making concrete that doesn’t contribute to global warming.

Workers pour concrete to create part of a bus stop last year in New York City.

Workers pour concrete to create part of a bus stop last year in New York City. Ted Shaffrey/AP

The modern world is built on concrete. It holds together driveways, bridges and the buildings in which more than 70 percent of the world’s population makes their home.

But the material is also a climate killer. Its production is responsible for 8 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions — more than the entirety of India’s CO2 emissions.

Remedies have been few and far between, but a California company named C-Crete Technologies says it has developed America’s first carbon-neutral and commercially available ready-mix concrete.

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Its trick is twofold.

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