Find a way to reuse and recycle as much construction waste as you can. The most common recyclable materials include plastic containers, cardboard, paper, doors, windows, and roofing. If you have material that could be bad for the environment, find ways to get rid of it completely. Landfilli...
You can also recycle other aluminum products, though, like aluminum foil, packaging, and even lawn furniture. When it comes to those bigger items, you’re better off finding your local scrap yard and contacting them to arrange drop off, as your curbside recycling program isn’t likely to tak...
Steel is relatively easy to recycle -- giant machines shred junk cars and construction waste. In addition, U.S. law requires a certain proportion of all steel to be made with recycled steel -- all U.S. steel contains at least 25 percent recycled steel. Once sorted, scrap steel is ...
Steel is relatively easy to recycle -- giant machines shred junk cars and construction waste. In addition, U.S. law requires a certain proportion of all steel to be made with recycled steel -- all U.S. steel contains at least 25 percent recycled steel. Once sorted, scrap steel is ...
The environmental costs of failing to recycle are drastic as well. The extraction of raw materials often leads to the degradation of soil quality; it can be the cause of deforestation, it can wreak havoc on biodiversity, and it often leads to the displacement of people. This process is expla...
In the UK, 63% of waste comes from construction sites: a total of 126 million tonnes and 50,000 buildings are demolished each year, many of which could be retrofitted and repurposed. The principle of eliminating waste by re-using as much material as possible is integral to the circular ...
In the process of production, textile enterprises are accompanied by a large number of waste textiles. How to recycle and reuse the waste textiles scientifically and reduce the two pollution is an important topic to be solved urgently. In recent years, the Shaoxing rojiang new area has actively...
If you have some wood lying around you’re not using, why not put it into sustainable and eco-friendly products? Here are six tips on how to recycle unused wood: 1. Use the Wood in Green Construction In the hands of skilled craftsmen, unused wood can go from waste to wow. Unused woo...
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of recycling construction sludge by which the construction sludge discharged from a muddy water treatment facility of a construction site or the like can be effectively recycled. SOLUTION: A medium pressure filter press 200 filters sludge separated in the ...
Cured material can be ground and reused in the construction industry. If fibers could be extracted, they could be reused to produce non-primary structures, such as materials with thermoplastic matrices. What scrap/waste do you think could be easily reduced? How? As the scrap from AFP is ...