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Lowering the Carbon Footprint is one of the strongest advantage by using HDPE geomembrane instead of traditional way for waterproofing as compacted clays.
A HDPE liner 1.5 mm could give similar watertight as 0.60 m compacted of high quality and homogeneous clay with lower permeability than 1 × 10–11 m/s (ASTM D 5887). Based on several scientist survey, considering all resources and energy to become either products as a waterproofing barrier, the geosynthetics (geomembrane HDPE 1.5 mm) takes up lower carbon dioxide equivalent, therefore it is more environmentally friendly solution.
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Gomez, J.M.M. (2019). Carbon Footprint of Geomembrane Alvatech HDPE vs Traditional Waterproofing Barrier. In: Meguid, M., Guler, E., Giroud, J. (eds) Advances in Geosynthetics Engineering. GeoMEast 2018. Sustainable Civil Infrastructures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01944-0_19
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