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We’re running out of beach and construction sand, which needs to be somewhat coarse to be functional. Desert sand particles are too fine, alkali content is too
by sjwright 6y ago
We’re running out of beach and construction sand, which needs to be somewhat coarse to be functional. Desert sand particles are too fine, alkali content is too high, and is generally full of contaminants.
- rapnie 6y agoYes, there are entire mafias operating in the sand business, stealing it wherever they can. There's the documentary Sand Wars that highlights the issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Wars Al Jazeera aired a docu about it too (don't know if it was the same one): https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2017/12/sand-wars-171213082235210.html https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2017/12/s...