Use Materials from Local Sources
Most of us are familiar with the environmental benefits of buying fresh produce from local farmers, which eliminates the consumption of fuel required to truck in produce from non-regional growers. The same holds true for the materials used in your countertops. Ask your countertop contractor if they make products using materials harvested or produced near your home, such as aggregate from a local river or quarry and cement produced in a regional plant. If you use a local countertop manufacturer, in almost all cases your countertop will be made locally too, either in the contractor's shop or even in your own home, if the countertop is cast-in-place. "Instead of getting a countertop material like granite and having it quarried in Italy, hauled to China for finishing, shipped by boat to the Untied States, and then trucked to local people to process and install, concrete is much more direct with a far smaller carbon footprint," says Fu-Tung Cheng of Cheng Design and author of the book Concrete Countertops. "Making your concrete countertops locally and not driving them across the country is a very green and sustainable enterprise." Return to Green Concrete Countertops Find a Concrete Contractor 24 Services in 221 Metros -- U.S. and Canada 
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