Construction is incredibly resource-intensive and emissions-heavy, but we can’t just stop building things. Thankfully, there are mountains of construction material sitting under our noses in old buildings. How can we use old materials to make new construction greener?

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We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Credits:
Reporter: Dave Braneck
Camera: Marco Borowski
Video Editor: Frederik Willmann
Supervising Editor: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann, Kiyo Dörrer
Factcheck: Alexander Paquet
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon

Read More:
Metabolic on urban mining: https://www.metabolic.nl/news/urban-m...
Drees and Sommer (EPEA) on Heidelberg project: https://www.dreso.com/de/en/company/p...

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:54 Rebuilding Heidelberg
3:21 Construction’s big waste problem
5:01 Striking gold in the city
7:21 Not as simple as it sounds
8:44 Making urban mining the norm