Reducing Construction Waste
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Construction debris can make up over a quarter of a landfill. Here are some tips for reducing construction waste from our recent remodeling project.
We have covered donating unwanted items in the past. Craigslist proved very useful in giving away old kitchen cabinets, countertops, extra wood, and many other items. We also moved into our garage for much more organized storage.
Our contractor was instrumental in diverting old items toward for use on other projects he was working on. Many items went to a local church.
We were left with extra construction supplies such as adhesives and sealers, parts, etc. We returned as many as we could to vendors and gave the extras back to our contractor for future projects. No sense in adding stuff that would never be used to our storage space.
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Filed under: Conservation, Effort, Environment, Green, Home, Kitchen, Medium, Recycling, Reuse, Waste | Tags: Debris, Remodelling
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February 25th, 2010 at 8:30 am
Dimola Brothers recycling of New York has been salvaging anything useful out of garages, apartments and estates for many years. People move on, leave their rubbish behind and call Dimola to clean it out. We do our part in keeping the landfills from filling up.