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Construction recycling facility opens its doors in Australia
November 18, 2009 - Cleantech Group best of the web pick
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An advanced construction and demolition (C&D) materials recycling facility in Melbourne, Australia, is now open for business, according to a story in tomorrow’s edition of Construction Contractor.
The $45 million Western Metropolitan Recycling Facility is owned and operated by the Alex Fraser Group, Australia’s leading construction and demolition materials recycler with six major recycling centers in Victoria and Queensland and an annual capacity of about four million tons.
The custom-built facility includes smart design features and innovative technologies expected to help increase C&D recycling capacity in Victoria and reduce carbon emissions. The plant is to recycle 1 million tons of C&D material annually—or a third of Victoria’s recycling effort in 2007 to 2008 from just one plant.
Some of the technologies includes a multi-layered separation system, computerized monitoring, and a high capacity pugmill and load out system for faster turnaround of trucks, said Construction Contractor, which is published by Reed Business Information. A pugmill is where materials are simultaneously ground and mixed with a liquid.
Achieving carbon savings from recycling concrete is a trend many developers are moving toward, not only to be more responsible in their environmental choices but to improve the uptake of recycled materials.
Halifax, Nova Scotia-based Carbon Sense Solutions, an environmental consulting firm, has developed a method for storing carbon dioxide in pre-cast concrete, which it said has the potential to put away 500 megatons of carbon dioxide annually (see Capturing carbon with concrete).
A recent report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency linked waste reduction and recycling to lowering carbon dioxide emissions. According to the report, 16 percent to 20 percent of U.S. emissions are related to land management policies, such as transportation and construction (see Report: CO2 emissions tied to waste reduction, recycling).
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Reed Business Information
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Re : Construction recycling facility opens its doors in Australi
Submitted on December 6th, 2009 by Portable Storage (not verified)I think that this is a very good step taken by the Australian government and I hope that this is pretty useful for the construction firm too.
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