Committee on the Environment

You can put this in your specifications today. It's not the onsite tool you're looking for, but a contract requirement in the 01 74 19 CONSTRUCTION WASTE MANAGEMENT AND DISPOSAL section.

1.3 DEFINITIONS / H. Soil Amendment: Elements added to topsoil to improve its capacity to support plant life. Compost, peat moss, fertilizer, and gypsum are all viable additives. 

1.4 PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS / A.1.x.: Gypsum board: Recycle to closed loop gypsum manufacturing facility or soil amendment.

Fun fact about this, if your interior waste subcontractor says they are achieving a 75%-80% average diversion rate and they are not doing this, then they are likely not achieving those rates, at least in the commercial world.

Great reminder of the tools we already have - thank you Anthony!

You can put this in your specifications today. It's not the onsite tool you're looking for, but a contract requirement in the 01 74 19 CONSTRUCTION WASTE MANAGEMENT AND DISPOSAL section.

1.3 DEFINITIONS / H. Soil Amendment: Elements added to topsoil to improve its capacity to support plant life. Compost, peat moss, fertilizer, and gypsum are all viable additives. 

1.4 PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS / A.1.x.: Gypsum board: Recycle to closed loop gypsum manufacturing facility or soil amendment.

Fun fact about this, if your interior waste subcontractor says they are achieving a 75%-80% average diversion rate and they are not doing this, then they are likely not achieving those rates, at least in the commercial world.

Gail and Anthony

i don't believe your solution works.  Reliance on big recycling systems has proved woefully unsuccessful in terms of collection, sorting, reuse and documentation.  We need accountable strategies.  Recycling onsite will be accountable.  Certainly the concerns about the paper can be resolved with the capacities of the cuisinart I mentioned earlier.  Consider this a strategy similar to the developing small scale plug and play solar collectors.

respectfully

Great reminder of the tools we already have - thank you Anthony!

You can put this in your specifications today. It's not the onsite tool you're looking for, but a contract requirement in the 01 74 19 CONSTRUCTION WASTE MANAGEMENT AND DISPOSAL section.

1.3 DEFINITIONS / H. Soil Amendment: Elements added to topsoil to improve its capacity to support plant life. Compost, peat moss, fertilizer, and gypsum are all viable additives. 

1.4 PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS / A.1.x.: Gypsum board: Recycle to closed loop gypsum manufacturing facility or soil amendment.

Fun fact about this, if your interior waste subcontractor says they are achieving a 75%-80% average diversion rate and they are not doing this, then they are likely not achieving those rates, at least in the commercial world.

Hi Mike

Are you saying that we shouldn't include recycling requirements in our specifications?  I do believe in using the tools we already have, and I also believe we can and should go further.

respectfully

Gail and Anthony

i don't believe your solution works.  Reliance on big recycling systems has proved woefully unsuccessful in terms of collection, sorting, reuse and documentation.  We need accountable strategies.  Recycling onsite will be accountable.  Certainly the concerns about the paper can be resolved with the capacities of the cuisinart I mentioned earlier.  Consider this a strategy similar to the developing small scale plug and play solar collectors.

respectfully

Great reminder of the tools we already have - thank you Anthony!

You can put this in your specifications today. It's not the onsite tool you're looking for, but a contract requirement in the 01 74 19 CONSTRUCTION WASTE MANAGEMENT AND DISPOSAL section.

1.3 DEFINITIONS / H. Soil Amendment: Elements added to topsoil to improve its capacity to support plant life. Compost, peat moss, fertilizer, and gypsum are all viable additives. 

1.4 PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS / A.1.x.: Gypsum board: Recycle to closed loop gypsum manufacturing facility or soil amendment.

Fun fact about this, if your interior waste subcontractor says they are achieving a 75%-80% average diversion rate and they are not doing this, then they are likely not achieving those rates, at least in the commercial world.

Gail and Anthony

i don't believe your solution works.  Reliance on big recycling systems has proved woefully unsuccessful in terms of collection, sorting, reuse and documentation.  We need accountable strategies.  Recycling onsite will be accountable.  Certainly the concerns about the paper can be resolved with the capacities of the cuisinart I mentioned earlier.  Consider this a strategy similar to the developing small scale plug and play solar collectors.

respectfully

Great reminder of the tools we already have - thank you Anthony!

You can put this in your specifications today. It's not the onsite tool you're looking for, but a contract requirement in the 01 74 19 CONSTRUCTION WASTE MANAGEMENT AND DISPOSAL section.

1.3 DEFINITIONS / H. Soil Amendment: Elements added to topsoil to improve its capacity to support plant life. Compost, peat moss, fertilizer, and gypsum are all viable additives. 

1.4 PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS / A.1.x.: Gypsum board: Recycle to closed loop gypsum manufacturing facility or soil amendment.

Fun fact about this, if your interior waste subcontractor says they are achieving a 75%-80% average diversion rate and they are not doing this, then they are likely not achieving those rates, at least in the commercial world.