White Paper: Industrial Mineralization
Repurposing Industrial Waste into Durable Climate Value
The world has a tough equation to crack: mountains of waste on the ground, gigatonnes of CO2 in the sky.
What if two wrongs could make a right?
In this paper, we dive into Industrial Mineralization (IMin), a carbon dioxide removal (CDR) pathway that leverages existing industrial infrastructure and repurposes alkaline industrial waste streams such as mine tailings and steel slag to capture and permanently store atmospheric CO2. It is a pathway to durable, verifiable, gigatonne-scale CDR, transforming liabilities into assets, and waste into repair.
Key highlights:
- The scale of global industrial waste generation
- How IMin harnesses this scale of heavy industry and why industry is saying “IMin”
- Real world examples of IMin projects and the path forward
