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UK appoints cement trade body the Mineral Products Association to calculate concrete's potential as a carbon sink
The UK government has commissioned the trade body representing the concrete industry to determine the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide captured in concrete buildings and infrastructure in a move critics have described as "like the fox guarding the henhouse." More