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Maximum distance to facilities?

NC-2009 MRc2:Construction Waste Management
posted by  Reid Middlebrooks  on 

We have a project in a small town that is very remote. The nearest recycling facilities are 150 miles away by rail or truck. Another option is 1,500 miles by barge.

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Wed May 1, 2013, 1:33 pm

CWM - Temporary Landfill

NC-2009 MRc2:Construction Waste Management
posted by  ethen mcmanus  on 

The entire purpose of MR2 is to divert waste from landfills, and the waste should be either recycled, donated, salvaged or reused. My question is as follows: My project is in a third world countr

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Mon Jan 12, 2015, 3:20 pm

Documenting Waste Management on LEEDonline forms

NC-2009 MRc2:Construction Waste Management
posted by  angela cardwell  on 

How should we input waste diversion and landfilled waste into the leedonline forms.

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Fri Feb 10, 2012, 6:01 pm

Water waste

NC-2009 MRc2:Construction Waste Management
posted by  Karim Farah  on 

During coentsruction, a project has a major amount of water waste (more than 50% of the total amount of the waste generated by one production unit), this quantity of water is a result of the produc

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 6:07 pm

Gypsum board recycling resource, Saudi Arabia

NC-2009 MRc2:Construction Waste Management
posted by  Shreepad Bandagi  on 

Wondering if anyone would have a resource for gypsum board recycling anywhere in Saudi Arabia. Thanks!

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Wed Jul 9, 2025, 10:09 am

Construction Waste management

NC-2009 MRc2:Construction Waste Management
posted by  Piotr Podhajny  on 

What if you have two buildings each persuing LEED certification both build by the same contractor but two owners. How do you seperate the waste amount from both building?

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Fri Jul 22, 2016, 4:32 pm

Product Takeback Programs?

NC-2009 MRc2:Construction Waste Management
posted by  Jonathan Weiss  on 

Some manufacturers have "take-back" programs where they will take back unused surplus materials and restock them - the WBDG has that listed under masonry and other spec sections.

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Fri Oct 14, 2011, 8:29 pm

collecting recyclables together

NC-2009 MRc2:Construction Waste Management
posted by  Adrienn Gelesz  on 

If plastic and paper is collected together in the same container and taken to a common facility where both are recycled, does this count as commingled waste or can we track this as one waste catego

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Fri Feb 1, 2013, 9:00 pm

Concrete Waste

NC-2009 MRc2:Construction Waste Management
posted by  sompoche sirichote  on 

We have a good amount of concrete scrap that we intend to use as backfilling material on-site and at another site. Will this be considered as waste diversion? Thanks.

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Mon Sep 30, 2013, 3:39 pm

Recycling Batteries

NC-2009 MRc2:Construction Waste Management
posted by  Paola Medina  on 

One of our environmental companies have a lot of batteries that they want to recycle in our LEED project instead of send to landfills through encapsulate with concrete in the background hole of ele

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Mon Sep 28, 2015, 9:13 pm