Building and Demolition Waste Minimisation Options
Waste Streams
|
Options |
Recovery categorys
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Various |
Building design (paint, lighting and surfacing) |
Prevention |
Various |
Building disassembly or deconstruction (windows, door frames, doors, plumbing fittings, piping, bricks and tiles) |
Prevention or re-use |
Wood |
Salvage (wood fuel, mulch, bulking agents for composting, manufactured wood products and alternative wood fibre-based materials) |
Re-use or recycle |
Concrete |
Crush for roadwork applications (granular sub-base layers in road pavement construction, drainage, excavation fill applications – on or off site) |
Recycle |
Concrete |
Crush for construction site applications (fill on construction sites, aggregate for new ready-mix and pre-cast concrete blocks) |
Recycle |
Concrete |
Crush for marine/harbour applications (riprap for harbours – large pieces – to stabilise the shore in a harbour) |
Recycle |
Mixed rubble: Tiles concrete and bricks |
Crush for landfill applications (landfill cover material, berms in landfills to give structural strength to cells, cell cover once a cell is filled, to provide paved and firm tipping or off-loading zones, particularly during rainy conditions on landfill sites) |
Recycle |
Concrete & brick powder |
Fines Partial cement replacement for mortar |
Recycle |
Mixed rubble: tiles concrete & bricks |
Architectural/aesthetic applications (interior decoration: a polished wall of recycled concrete with mixed rubble can provide interesting finishes) |
Recycle |
Asphalt |
Roadwork applications (cold-mix asphalt patch for road pavement, on-site processing into hot mix for roads, road base or fill material) |
Re-use |
Ferrous & non-ferrous |
|
Re-use or recycle |
Glass |
|
Re-use |
Dry-walling |
|
Recycle |
Surplus road building material (RAP, base & sub-base) |
Resurfacing, rehabilitation and reconstruction of roads produces surplus materials (bitumen base or downgraded for re-use in the lower layers of road construction) |
Re-use |
Vegetation |
| Re-use |