Wood Waste Creates Better Concrete

Wood Waste Creates Better Concrete
Apr-15-18
Researchers have added recycled wood waste to cement to create concrete that is both stronger and more watertight.

The innovative technology, from a team at the National University of Singapore, involves adding biochar created from wood waste such as sawdust to concrete and mortar mixtures. According to the team, a small amount of dry biochar increases the concrete’s strength by about 20 percent, and increases impermeability by as much as fifty percent.

Singapore furniture factories create more than half a million tons of wood waste annually.

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