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Magnates pour big money into ‘greening’ dreadful polluter

Magnates pour big money into ‘greening’ dreadful polluter
Whether it's pipes below ground or roads, bridges and buildings above it, the world cannot do without concrete. (Image: NZME)
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By Konrad PutzierBill Gates, Jeff Bezos and former Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Rick Fox are part of a new wave of investors and entrepreneurs looking to make one of the world’s worst pollutants greener.Concrete accounts for more than 7% of global carbon emissions, according to some estimates. That is roughly the same as the CO undefined produced by all of India and more than double the amount produced by the global aviation industry. Most of those emissions are caused by cement, the glue that binds together sand and gravel t...

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