How can my company reduce, reuse, and recycle C&D debris?
• Incorporate environmental specifications into your building contracts and guidelines. • Develop standard operating procedures for C&D reuse and recycling at your construction site. • Rehabilitate an existing structure in place of planned demolition. • Use deconstruction techniques rather than demolition if a building must be torn down. • Employ efficient framing to reduce the amount of lumber used without sacrificing structural integrity. • Invest in durable products to ensure that materials last as long as possible. • Return unused construction material to vendors. • Consider the end-of-life management, or recyclability, of building products at the start of a project. • Salvage C&D waste for sale and reuse. • Purchase recycled-content building materials including insulation, carpet, cement, paint, floor tiles, shower and restroom dividers, laminated paperboard, and structural fiberboard.
