Encouraging Reuse over Recycling in the Building Industry
The path recycling has taken over the past couple of decades has been a promising one. Inroads into the consumer market have been tremendously successful with recycling programs in many cities across the country. For one of the country’s largest industries however, the construction industry, there is a lot of room for improvement.
Construction projects routinely over-order material to avoid shortfalls and keep projects on time. In many cases, this excess material is regularly thrown away because there is no need [...]
