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Utilizing concrete returns (Ready-mix plants, Greece)
Continuing the practice - started in the last several years - of utilizing concrete returns as an alternative raw material in the production of clinker and cement/concrete, a further 144,000 tons of concrete (39,000 tons in Greece and 105,000 tons in the U.S.A.) were recycled, saving valuable, non-renewable resources of raw material, reducing direct and indirect CO2 emissions and minimizing the need for landfilling.