The Sand Industry Is a Linear Economy

Pascal Piduzzi is with the environmental arm of the United Nations. He happened to be in Jamaica at the time doing research for the UN. People told him that some people came overnight, the guns and trucks,. And they stole the sand. They stole the beach away overnight. Pascal studies coastal erosion. So he's used to beaches disappearing, but like over hundreds of years. Here they're telling him a beach vanished overnight. How could that happen? So he starts studying the sand business. The sand industry is big. At the very minimum, $250 billion per year. Most sand is actually just bought and sold legally. But humans are extracting sand faster than the earth can create