Saudi tourism developer Red Sea Global (RSG) has agreed to lay carbon-negative concrete pavers at its large landscape nursery in Saudi Arabia.
The pavers are made by Partanna, which claims to have developed the world’s first carbon negative concrete that absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere as it cures.
RSG has ordered an initial 11,000 pavers for its 1-million-sq-m nursery that will grow some 30 million plants by 2030 for The Red Sea and Amaala resort complexes.
Partanna says its cement cures at ambient temperature, avoiding the intensive heat required for traditional cement. Its binding agents, which include recycled steel slag and leftover brine from desalination plants, absorb CO2 from the air as the cement cures.
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