citation: Nick Beckelman, Scientific American, February 2023
A number of articles are emphasizing that "recycled carbon content" cement has the potential to reduce greenhouse gases even more than electric vehicles does.
Solving Cement’s Massive Carbon Problem
New techniques and novel ingredients can greatly reduce the immense carbon emissions from cement and concrete production
In this blog I explore how Recycling Policy Organizations like MassRecycle.org, NERC.org, ReMA.org, EarthwormRecycling.org, NRRArecycles.org have the experience to look at "recycled content" rules of procurement to become important to putting "hardened cement" (the value-added by captured carbon ash in the cement) into the quiver of EPR and procurement law.
How do we get our memberships to think about cement manufacturing as an important "recycled content" story, as we did with recycled content paper procurement in the 1990s? I guess we need to write complicated blogs hoping to get the interests of academics who we can then get to make the "recycled content cement" case, invite them as conference speakers. Part of this "fishing for swordfish" strategy will involve incorporating keywords that keep the Tilapia and Perch of the press interested in our press releases.
If recycling advocates currently consider glass aggregate / daily cover in our recycling rates (never an obvious call to raw material originalists, but that referee's call has sailed), I was wondering about some forms of carbon sequestration, especially cement and concrete. See article in Nature below.
