During a demo of an existing building, many items were sorted onsite and sent to a specific recycler. In one case, scrap metal was sorted from the other demo debris and sent to one recycling place. It was then split into copper and brass when unloaded from the truck (the haul tickets have the weight breakdown of each material on it). Can this be considered "scrap metal (copper and brass)" waste with no support documentation needed or "commingled" waste and I need to provide the haul tickets?

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Mon, 03/11/2013 - 22:39

My firm’s strategy has always been to only give USGBC/GBCI information that is asked for in the documentation; however, we always prepare a full set of backup so that we have it available and there is no scrambling if a question arises. I am not positive how LEED reviewers would interpret your situation. So this is my opinion, since the one case you are mentioned was site separated as metals to be diverted yet you do have the backup documentation, I would list the material as diverted (because it was) and keep your backup if they ask for it. Consider looking at http://www.leeduser.com/credit/NC-2009/MRc2?page=0#comment-30807 below for a discussion regarding commingled.

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