Geocycle: making construction more sustainable
Geocycle provides solutions for recycling raw materials as inputs for cement production.
During the cement-making process, they replace carbon-intensive traditional materials and fossil fuels with low-carbon equivalents, such as waste biomass, to reduce CO2 emissions.
By recycling end-of-life materials, they reduce the amount of virgin resources used in construction projects. There are two stages to their process: the first is pre-treatment which involves turning a wide variety of waste into a homogenous mix through shredding, blending and drying. The second stage is co-processing which recovers energy and materials from waste to power the cement production process. The recycled material replaces clinker, the main ingredient in cement that takes a great deal of energy to produce.
As a result, 100% of the waste input is recycled and recovered without producing any residue.
They use non-hazardous and hazardous industrial waste, sorted municipal waste and agricultural residues, including shredded solid waste, tyres, plastics, glass and tiles.
- Geocycle is present in nearly 200 locations across 40 countries.
- Their solution makes construction, a very polluting and waste-intensive industry, more circular by using waste as a resource.