Materials such as concrete containing carbonate-based aggregates, bio-based plastics and biochar could sequester more than 16 ...

Related Stories Bricks, another common material, could incorporate biomass fibers to store roughly 0.8 gigatons of CO2. Additionally, using calcium hydroxide in bricks enables further mineral ...

incorporating biomass fiber into bricks; or using artificially carbon-loaded rocks as aggregate in concrete and asphalt. Replacing all conventional building materials with carbon-sequestering ...

or baking biomass fibers into bricks. The authors admit that these techniques are at varying stages of readiness—some are already commercially available, while others are still in a lab—but ...

wood and brick. More than 30 billion tons of conventional versions of these materials are produced worldwide every year. The carbon-storing approaches studied included adding biochar (made by heating ...

A new study published in Science magazine looked into the role of carbon-storing building materials in the efforts to ...