Recycling C&D in the Flight for Landfill Space

Each year, construction and demolition (C&D) debris contributes a crushing blow to the solid waste industry's efforts to reduce the amount of waste being landfilled. An estimated 200 million tons of C&D debris is generated annually, comprising at least one-third of the U.S. waste stream, according to the Construction Materials Recycling Association, Lisle, Ill. Now, solid waste managers and industry leaders - from the local to federal level - are employing a diversion cocktail of source reduction, reuse and recycling to keep this cumbersome waste out of the nation's landfills. For example, at Modern City, N.Y.-based Modern Recycling, ...

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