{"id":177484,"date":"2023-12-05T19:23:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T01:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/recycling-concrete-using-carbon-can-reduce-emissions-and-waste"},"modified":"2023-12-05T19:23:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T01:23:24","slug":"recycling-concrete-using-carbon-can-reduce-emissions-and-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/recycling-concrete-using-carbon-can-reduce-emissions-and-waste","title":{"rendered":"Recycling concrete using carbon can reduce emissions and waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/recycling-concrete-using-carbon-can-reduce-emissions-and-waste.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amid the rubble of large-sale earthquake, war or other disaster\u2014and as aging buildings and infrastructure are replaced\u2014mountains of concrete are often taken to landfill or pounded into rubble for roads.<\/p>\n<p>For a more sustainable approach, Flinders University and The University of Melbourne experts are developing a \u2018value add\u2019 for old broken concrete to \u2018upcycling\u2019 coarse aggregate to produce a strong, durable and workable concrete using a small amount of a secret ingredient\u2014graphene.<\/p>\n<p>The novel method is gaining ground every day as new graphene deposits are discovered and mined\u2014bringing the price of that raw material down as the cost of cement and aggregates continues to rise, the researchers say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the rubble of large-sale earthquake, war or other disaster\u2014and as aging buildings and infrastructure are replaced\u2014mountains of concrete are often taken to landfill or pounded into rubble for roads. For a more sustainable approach, Flinders University and The University of Melbourne experts are developing a \u2018value add\u2019 for old broken concrete to \u2018upcycling\u2019 coarse [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}