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China’s shift to manufactured sand reduces environmental impacts
Between 80 to 90 per cent of the sand used in China’s construction industry today is manufactured, marking a turning point in human engineering and offering hope to solve a major crisis for the world, according to a new study. Sand has been used in buildings for at least 60,000 years. It is the second most used resource on earth after water. Rapid population growth and urbanisation in recent decades […]