Insulated metal panels (IMP): These products, though very viable as per speed and quality of construction assemblies are difficult to trade off for recycling purposes, they are easily available for re-use when de-assembled but a cause for concern when dealing with the cut out small waste pieces.
Questions -1:
Do we send these to the land fill or determine if the manufacturers would be involved in a take back program?, but again that would be determined by the availability of the said program by the manufacturer...
...I would check with the Manufacturer directly to confirm, "I seem to have answered a part of this question myself!" :)
We are trying to avoid any land-fill deliveries from all building materials, to as much as 75% or more, as all items diverted from the land-fill would count in our favor to gain the LEED points for the required credit.
Question – 2:
As per our the entire Waste Management process for the purpose of the LEED v4 credit requirement… we would have to take inventory of the weight of every waste dumpster leaving the site for 4 waste streams being processed; now the concern is, it seems we might have to not only weigh the bins at the final Recycling destination but also weigh the bins before they leave site.
- Now what is your take on this or what do you recommend as a solution for transparency in this process?.
- Your suggestions on available weighing equipment’s to have on site for this process?.
RETIRED
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August 27, 2018 - 4:40 pm
You definitely answered your own question for #1 regarding a manufacturer's takeback program. If they don't have one and depending on the volume of the scrap pieces, could the panels (or maybe just the larger ones) be disassembled and the components recycled?
Regarding Question - 2: There is no requirement to weigh the dumpsters more than once. If the dumpster is going directly to the processing facility and there is no additional material being added along the way, then you could rely on the weight the processor provides you at the recycling destination. Typically your recycler will provide you with a summary report of the overall weights of the material from your project that will help with transparency.
I would think you would need a truck scale on site to weigh the bins before they are taken off site. In my experience, I've never seen dumpsters being weighed on site.
Olawale Taiwo
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August 28, 2018 - 11:17 am
Thank you so much Michelle, you have just taken off some load of weight off my back on how to proceed... the experience and responses on this platform is just awesome.
As per the last sentence, my thoughts also goes to a sequence of either knowing the weights of the bins before hand (like how we have the weights of cars labelled somewhere etc.) or weighing the bin after it's been emptied, once done the first time … it becomes the default weight to be used for all subsequent trips to the recycling destination.