The Sand Crisis

 Niko Cantu

Mr.Roddy 

IHSS

17 May 2022


The Sand Crisis

Out of all the world materials one of the last that we would think would run out is sand, but in fact that is the case. Every year 50 billion metric tons of sand are consumed across the world and for reference that is enough sand to build an 88 foot tall, 88 foot wide wall around the Earth. Sand is an invisible material in our everyday life as it makes up the building blocks we see around us and quite literally as the main component by percentage in concrete, is sand. Things like glass and even silicon, which plays a big role in the phones we carry everywhere, are all made up of a high sand percentage. While sand plays a role in our modern world through construction and technology, it also is extremely important to the environment. Sand helps against storm surges and erosion, it is also a key factor in many natural habits for a variety of animals. The United Nations Environmental Program(UNEP) has done work in helping to reduce the use of sand as they have worked to try and put a global counter on the use of sand, as well as promote other viable materials to replace sand with. Some of these alternative sand solutions include crushed rocks, recycled construction, as well as ore-sand which is a mining byproduct, with  all three of these options being main alternatives to natural sand. As sand continues to be used, countries such as India, Indonesia, and China as well as others have started being effetce by this. China on its own uses roughly half of the overall sand use which is far more than any other nation. As this issue becomes more prominent I wonder how the countries of the world will find a way to replace sand with a more sustainable material in order to sustain a stable society.


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