The application of geopolymer technology in the mining, building
and construction and waste containment industries offers the
opportunity to address a variety of current sustainability issues
within these industries.
These include:-
- Conversion of by-products currently treated as wastes to useful
and valuable products,
- The ability to reduce Australian and Global greenhouse
emissions by significant amounts,
- In particular, the ability to address the challenge facing the
Concrete Industry over the necessity to reduce carbon dioxide
emissions during the manufacture of cement,
- Other building related issues such as material chemical
resistance, material fire resistance and behaviour in a fire,
material life cycles, the use of petroleum based materials (eg
many "plastics" or organic polymers) and in the waste containment
industry, a better option for containing low level toxic
wastes than those currently used.
