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Around six billion tonnes of sand is dredged from the world's oceans every year, a new report says.

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[โ€“] nikolai@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Concrete and glass. Oh, and money.

[โ€“] blazera@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Not the sand part, the ocean part. Weight is usually a major factor in large scale resource industries like this, why on earth would they want wet sand? Plus thats gotta be more expensive property to buy the rights to.