The Philippines is making roads and cement with plastic garbage →

January 28, 2020 by Oliver Gordon

Philippine companies like San Miguel Corp. and Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc. are using discarded shopping bags, sachet wrappers and plastic packaging to fire cement plants and build roads as the country embarks on an 8 trillion-peso ($157 billion) infrastructure push through 2022. BLOOMBERG

How to make cement more climate-friendly →

November 28, 2019 by Oliver Gordon

Cement releases huge amounts of carbon dioxide - up to 8% of the global total. But the boss of one cement company in India has managed to slash its carbon emissions to 40% below the global average and aims to become carbon neutral by 2040. BBC NEWS