The Climate Group is joining forces with one of China’s biggest concrete producers, the China Advanced Construction Materials Group (China ACM) to tackle one of the biggest side-effects of China’s rapid growth and urbanization: urban construction waste.
Under The Climate Group’s China Redesign platform, the year-long project seeks to cut waste and bolster recycling of urban construction resources.
China produces 300 million tons of construction waste per year – a figure that accounts for 30-40% of total waste. Less than 5% of that amount is currently recycled.
Even though there have been attempts from several cities to tackle the issue, there hasn’t been any nation-wide systematic effort. The Chinese Government has listed urban construction waste recycling as one of the country’s seven strategic industries in the 12th 5-year plan.
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