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I’ve been touting this fact for years. 90% of landfill debris is from demolition. We need more renovation instead of new construction.
by gogopuppygogo 6y ago
I’ve been touting this fact for years.
90% of landfill debris is from demolition.
We need more renovation instead of new construction.
- cranekam 6y agoDo you have a source for this?
- gogopuppygogo 6y ago“Demolition represents more than 90 percent of total C&D debris generation, while construction represents less than 10 percent.“ https://www.epa.gov/smm/sustainable-management-construction-and-demolition-materials https://www.epa.gov/smm/sustainable-management-construction-...
- eps 6y ago90% of construction and demolition debris is from demolition. Not quite the same as your opener that claimed that it's 90% of all debris.
- wcoenen 6y ago"About 13 percent of the solid waste in Missouri landfills is demolition waste." From page 128 of https://dnr.mo.gov/env/swmp/docs/wcs98constructionwaste.pdf https://dnr.mo.gov/env/swmp/docs/wcs98constructionwaste.pdf
- gogopuppygogo 6y agoDebris is a type of solid waste.
- hinkley 6y agoI remember a while back reading about work on increasing the recycled content of concrete (using old concrete as aggregate in new concrete, I think?) but I did not bookmark it and none of my last set of searches seemed to be in the right direction. There’s a Wikipedia page on the subject but little of it sounds familiar, and those bits have no citations.