One of the challenges of undertaking a building that treats the environment differently than we have in the past is to minimize the impact of construction waste. In the past, construction waste went straight to landfills with little consideration given to reuse or recycling.
Not at our building. Our goal is to divert 75% of the waste from the site away from landfills and toward a more productive use. Butz Burkey has hired Construction Waste Management to manage that process for us and the first report is in.
To date, we've removed 191 tons of waste from the site. Here's how much went to landfills.......ZERO! So far, not a single piece of waste has gone into a landfill.
Most of what has been removed has been "rubble". The asphalt that was torn up was sent to E.J. Breneman and was recycled into new asphalt. The concrete from the old sidewalks was buried in a farmers field as part of a project to regrade a field to make it useful for cultivation.
191 tons of waste and not one ounce to a landfill so far! Congratulations to the whole team for that accomplishment.
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