Recycling Concrete: Towards “Zero Landfill” Geneva, 15 July 2009 - A new report by the WBCSD Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) argues that recycling concrete reduces natural resource exploitation and waste going to landfill. It asks for an ultimate goal of “zero landfill” of concrete.

Cement Companies Reduce Climate Impacts by Slowing CO2 Emissions Growth, New Data Shows Geneva, 30 June 2009 - The WBCSD's Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI), representing the collective effort of 18 leading cement companies from around the world, today released the report “Cement Industry Energy and CO2 Performance: ‘Getting the Numbers Right'.”

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The WBCSD on Cement

The cement industry plays a key role in meeting society's needs for housing and basic infrastructure by supplying concrete.

The industry employs about 850,000 workers in facilities in 150 countries, producing about 1.5 billion tons of cement a year. It has an estimated annual turnover of $87 billion and has grown by nearly 4 percent a year over the past decade.

Cement production is energy-intensive - it accounts for 5 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions - and it touches on a wide range of sustainability issues including:

• Climate change
• Pollution
• Resource depletion 
• Worker health and safety

To address these issue and to provide vision and direction for a more sustainable approach to the industry’s future growth, the WBCSD worked with the industry to carry out a sector project on cement.

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