Resource Conservation: Crushed concrete utilizes discarded concrete materials, reducing the need for virgin materials such as stone, sand and cement. This helps reduce the exploitation of natural resources and promotes their sustainable use.
Waste Reduction: By reprocessing waste concrete into recycled aggregate, the stockpiling and disposal of large amounts of waste concrete generated during construction and demolition can be reduced. This helps reduce the load on construction landfills and reduces the need for waste treatment facilities.
Energy Savings: The production process of crushing concrete generally uses less energy than the production process of fresh concrete. Because crushed concrete does not require the mining and processing of raw materials, its production process is more energy-efficient and efficient.
Reduced carbon emissions: The production and use of crushed concrete produces lower carbon emissions than fresh concrete. Crushing concrete helps reduce the construction industry’s carbon footprint by reducing the need for virgin materials and reducing transport distances.
Improve soil and water quality: Using crushed concrete as recycled aggregate improves soil aeration and drainage, helping to reduce soil erosion and soil erosion. In addition, the use of crushed concrete can also reduce water consumption because it does not require large amounts of water to produce.
Promote a circular economy: Crushing concrete is an example of a circular economy, enabling the reuse and recycling of resources by reprocessing waste materials into valuable recycled aggregates. This helps build a sustainable construction industry and society.
To sum up, crushed concrete has many environmental benefits, including resource protection, waste reduction, energy conservation and emission reduction, improvement of soil and water quality, and promotion of circular economy. Therefore, the promotion and adoption of crushed concrete in construction and infrastructure construction is an important environmentally friendly initiative.
