Scientists Are Making Concrete With Treated Human Waste – And It Gets 42% Stronger

Photo: Regular concrete being poured at a construction site – February 22, 2024. Attribution: “Lincoln Park Affordable Housing Phase 2” by City of Greenville, North Carolina via Flickr. Public Domain. Article by Michelle Starr. ScienceAlert – September 9, 2026. Research article: Scientific Reports.

Concrete is, quite literally, the foundation of the modern world. Almost every construction project in the world uses the material in some form. There’s just one problem, and that’s a big one: Making one of its central ingredients – cement – is horrendously bad for the environment. The act of heating and processing limestone to make cement is one of the world’s foremost sources of carbon dioxide emissions – so, understandably, scientists have been looking for ways to mitigate this problem. And researchers led by civil engineer Raghuvesh Tiwari of Manipal University Jaipur in India may have just hit upon an ingenious solution that takes care of two environmental birds with one stone. […]

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