In MOST cases, I have found this credit's requirements to be attainable. In the case of a SE regional military installation I am working on, the established recycling collection service used for C&D projects is already able to recycle 6+ materials and achieved over 75% total diversion. This would be the typical range of diversion results for most project types in this region. However, greater transportation costs may be associated with rural projects if they are more remote from the recycling facilities, as the recycling facilities are fewer in number than the various local landfills.
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Kristina Bach
VP of InnovationSustainable Investment Group
151 thumbs up
August 2, 2013 - 1:15 pm
I agree - the current thresholds seem quite low/easy to achieve for the majority of our projects. As part of our standard MRc2 tracking, we've demonstrated achievement of the diversion of over 5 different material streams and well over the 75% mark as well. If this really wanted to push the envelope, it would probably be better if projects were required to have more material streams or if each material stream had to hit the minimum diversion rate individually (to help prevent one single stream being really good and carrying the others).
Francis Chua
AssociateNK Architects
17 thumbs up
September 26, 2016 - 11:52 am
I agree, as well. I was able to get over 95% diversion for 6 streams not including gypsum. Mainly because we recycled a massive amount of masonry on the job, as the project had masonry veneer, and exterior and interior CMU.