Green Design = Smart Design = Green Design: Pollution Eating Cement

Via Got2BeGreen…

Many big metropolitan cities suffer from ugly smog and thick layers of pollution that can leave many with health issues like asthma or allergies. Fortunately a team of Italian inventors have found a solution for this increasing problem, pollution-eating cement.

Western Europe has already started to use the new cement called TX Active in building and streets. The town of Segrete in Northern Italy has repaved a street that sustains 1,000 cars per hour. Italcementi says it has measured 60 percent reduction in nitric oxide on that particular street.

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