Throughout the world, harbors, ports, and coastlines are constructed in ways that disrupts local coastal ecosystems and reduces biodiversity. Shimrit Perkol-Finkel created a start-up company in Israel that makes sustainable concrete blocks that mimics and is designed based off of marine life and promotes the growth of sea life in order to combat these issues. More specifically, Econcrete helps the growth oysters, corals, algae, and other marine life as it is made of calcium carbonate and has crevices for organisms to live.
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