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GBlist: C&D waste issues (R. Snyder post)




 -----------C&D waste issues--------------------
>Snip from post GB (digest #392 -- 19 Sept. 1997)
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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 14:29:31 -0400
From: Snyder.Robin@epamail.epa.gov
Subject: GBlist: C&D recycling info request
Original question:  I'm writing a paper and I need to know what the
percentage of construction wastes goes into landfills nationally.  I have 
searched the web and have tried the EPA web-site, but haven't found the numbers 
I need.  Does anyone know either the percentages (with references) or where I 
could go to get this information?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Bion Howard response:

RS- check with Peter Yost at the NAHB Research Center, (301) 249-4000
(local call from Judiciary Square or Waterside Mall...) who has done
considerable study in this area.

C&D waste resource reduction is an area every builder can and should
take steps to implement now.  Every green building conference has some
sessions on this, and papers exist on the topic as well.
.........................................................................
BTW, RC is funded to do a green building manual 
     (yes another green building manual, thank goodness...) by EPA !!
The program is funded in support of national green-home marketing program
sponsored by NAHB -- the same group that brought U.S. a nationwide effort
to repeal local adoption and enforcement of the Model Energy Code !!
NAHB going green is more about the color of money (personal rant here)
and helping put down "needless regulation that hurts the industry..."
as opposed to real reform in the environmental impacts of development.

It stands to __ builders themselves__ to learn about and implement their
own green building "standards," since powerful political forces including
NAHB, the lumber industry, and others are delaying promulgation of new
voluntary standards in order to buy time for existing products to complete
market cycles, and since many consultant studies predictably show that
competing and quite dissimilar products are "greener than driven pine-
needles..."

While developing this program, the Research Center is also participating
(well, sort of) in the development of ASTM standard guidelines for residential 
green buildings.  To their credit the C&D resource analysis
work they have done is of a unique and high-quality nature.  There are
several published reports on this topic too, but P. Yost will have to help
here since there has been a glut of green building "information" that is
quite a lot like solar in the mid-to-late 1970's. 

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