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Concrete is all around us, but most of us don't even notice that it's there.

We use concrete to build our roads, buildings, bridges, airports.

It's everywhere.

The only resource we use more than concrete is water.

And with population growth and urbanization,

we're going to need concrete more than ever. But there's a problem. Cements the glue that holds concrete

together. And to make cement, you burn limestone with other ingredients in a kiln at very high temperatures.

One of the byproducts of that process is carbon dioxide, or CO2.

For every ton of cement that's manufactured,

almost a ton of CO2 is emitted into the atmosphere.

As a result, the cement industry is the second largest industrial emitter of CO2,

responsible for almost 8% of total global emissions. If we're

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