Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010

Heming Wang; Peng Wang; Xu Zhang; Wei Qiang Chen; Asaf Tzachor; Tomer Fishman; Heinz Schandl; Michele Acuto; Yi Yang; Yingying Lu; Catrin Böcher; Fengmei Ma; Chao Zhang; Qiang Yue; Tao Du; Jianguo Liu; Yong Guan Zhu

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Substantial increase in China’s manufactured sand supply since 2010

Heming Wang, Peng Wang, Xu Zhang, Wei Qiang Chen^*, Asaf Tzachor^*, Tomer Fishman, Heinz Schandl, Michele Acuto, Yi Yang, Yingying Lu, Catrin Böcher, Fengmei Ma, Chao Zhang, Qiang Yue, Tao Du, Jianguo Liu^*, Yong Guan Zhu

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As the world’s second most consumed resource, sand is being depleted at an alarming rate. China accounted for nearly half of the world’s sand consumption in 2012. Here we present a material flow analysis of sand from 1995 to 2020 that shows China’s overall sand supply surged by approximately 400% over the study period, yet the proportion of natural sand dropped from ~80% to ~21% due to the increasing use of manufactured sand. From 2010 to 2020, China’s natural sand supply nearly halved due to the strict policies on natural sand mining and the promotion of manufactured sand. This shift demonstrates a possibility for mitigating impacts on natural sand resources during industrialization and urbanization.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	833-836
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nature Geoscience
Volume	17
Issue number	9
Early online date	19 Jul 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01501-6
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2024

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