Study: Boosting 'circular' approaches to building retrofits could slash 500 million tonnes of CO2

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Research from McKinsey and World Economic Forum highlights opportunity to boost recycling and reuse in the emerging market for building retrofitting

Using more recycled and reused materials to manufacture building energy efficiency components such as insulation could help unlock an "untapped" multi-trillion-dollar global circular retrofitting market...

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