{"id":215013,"date":"2025-05-29T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/geopolymer-technology-turns-recycled-glass-and-construction-waste-into-a-durable-and-green-construction-material"},"modified":"2025-05-29T17:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:08:07","slug":"geopolymer-technology-turns-recycled-glass-and-construction-waste-into-a-durable-and-green-construction-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/geopolymer-technology-turns-recycled-glass-and-construction-waste-into-a-durable-and-green-construction-material","title":{"rendered":"Geopolymer technology turns recycled glass and construction waste into a durable and green construction material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/geopolymer-technology-turns-recycled-glass-and-construction-waste-into-a-durable-and-green-construction-material2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With global population growth accelerating urban expansion, construction activity has reached unprecedented levels\u2014placing immense pressure on both natural resources as well as the environment. A cornerstone of modern-day infrastructure, Ordinary Portland Cement remains the most effective and commonly used soil solidifier despite contributing substantially to global carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/construction+waste\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">construction waste<\/a> continues to accumulate in landfills. Addressing both the environmental burden of cement use and the inefficiencies of industrial waste disposal has become an urgent priority.<\/p>\n<p>To tackle these interconnected challenges, scientists from Japan, led by Professor Shinya Inazumi, from the College of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT), Japan, present a sustainable alternative: a high-performance geopolymer-based soil solidifier developed from Siding Cut Powder (SCP), a construction waste byproduct, and earth silica (ES), sourced from recycled glass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With global population growth accelerating urban expansion, construction activity has reached unprecedented levels\u2014placing immense pressure on both natural resources as well as the environment. A cornerstone of modern-day infrastructure, Ordinary Portland Cement remains the most effective and commonly used soil solidifier despite contributing substantially to global carbon emissions. At the same time, construction waste continues [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215013","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}