US: Urban Mining Industries has completed deliveries of its Pozzotive ground glass pozzolan binder for JPMorgan Chase’s global headquarters in New York. The company produced the binder from post-consumer glass feedstocks at its Beacon Falls plant, and supplied it to SRM Concrete for mixing at its Long Island City ready-mix concrete plant. The building contains 39,700m³ of concrete featuring Pozzotive binder in place of 40% of its cement content.
Contractor Severud Associates said "This innovative use of recycled glass instead of ordinary Portland cement not only saved over 5000t of embodied carbon and diverted more than 29 million glass bottles from landfills, it also enhanced the strength of the concrete."
