Blue Phoenix, an international producer of sustainable secondary aggregates, has signed a three‑year agreement with digital reuse platform MukAway, signalling a shift from traditional waste logistics into online materials trading. The deal will channel incinerator bottom ash and other secondary aggregates through MukAway’s marketplace, matching surplus materials from energy‑from‑waste and recycling plants with nearby construction and infrastructure projects. For contractors and geotechnical designers, this could increase availability and traceability of certified recycled aggregates, supporting specification of lower‑carbon sub‑base and fill materials where local standards permit.

CATL has acquired a 20% stake and board seat in New Zealand-based CarbonScape, positioning itself as industrialisation partner for the company’s forestry by-product–derived “biographite” anode material. CarbonScape’s process converts renewable feedstock from major forestry suppliers into battery-grade graphite, targeting US and European lithium-ion supply chains that currently rely on oil-based feedstock for over 75% of graphite. A demonstration plant in Kotka, Finland, will build on an existing New Zealand pilot, with commercial-scale biographite production targeted by the end of the decade.

Marley has launched Edgemere 2.0 concrete interlocking roof tiles using Heidelberg Materials’ evoZero cement, which relies on carbon captured and “banked” from Heidelberg’s Brevik plant in Norway, currently sequestering about 400,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year. The tiles carry a low Global Warming Potential, Green Guide A+ rating and BES 6001 Excellent certification, targeting specifiers seeking verifiable low‑carbon roofing materials. Heidelberg is also constructing a carbon capture plant at its Padeswood cement works in north Wales, designed to capture about 95% of emissions, or roughly 800,000 tonnes of CO₂ annually, from 2029.