Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010 - Nature Geoscience
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The increasing use of manufactured sand in China since 2010 has greatly reduced the proportion of natural sand in the country’s total sand supply, from 80% in 1995 to 21% in 2020, according to a material flow analysis of sand in China.
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Original Title: China uses 80% artificial sand according to new study | China may have found a solution to the sand mining problem. The Chinese have been using artificial sand made by crushing rocks and leftover materials from mining for many of their construction projects.