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This new breakthrough could recycle cement from demolished buildings

It works by heating old cement. This reactivates the cement so it can be used again. Making new cement requires a lot of energy but scientists at Cambridge University have found a way to make it more sustainable, by producing it as part of another circular process: steel recycling.

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