| "Green", or being environmentally answerable, is | | | | operating expenses. It can keep down your disposal |
| everyplace nowadays. Folks are recognizing that we | | | | and hauling costs, including labor, transfer, and |
| can not simply keep chewing up the world and | | | | garbage disposal fees. |
| turning everything into waste. | | | | There is a huge assortment of market places for C |
| If you haven't already merged green building | | | | and D materials. Network with your regional recyclers |
| construction techniques into how you work, you will | | | | to discover what each accepts and if they require |
| presently be left behind by a industry that is quickly | | | | that the materials be separated. Many times, sorting |
| accelerating its call for for an environmentally focused | | | | materials at the worksite increases the value of the |
| mindset. | | | | materials, but some recyclers will accept unsorted |
| Luckily, it's easy to begin right now to add green | | | | loads when separating at the jobsite is not practical. |
| construction habits into your business, and to profit | | | | Recycling does not have to all happen off-site, or be |
| nicely by them. Make sustainable materials available to | | | | done by specialists. You can completely reduce |
| your customers if you want to succeed. Recycling | | | | hauling and disposal costs, as well as the cost of new |
| your C&D supplies is the best way to lead off. | | | | materials, simply by recycling and reusing materials in |
| It is currently calculated that if all the concrete and | | | | place on the green homes site. For instance, you can |
| asphalt pavement generated every year in the | | | | grind up waste concrete and use it as fill. There are |
| United States alone was reused, we would preserve | | | | small, man-portable and relatively cut-rate grinders |
| the energy equivalent of 1 billion gallons of fuel, the | | | | available that can be hooked up to a work truck and |
| equivalent of removing more than 1 million vehicles | | | | safely and easily used at a residential green building |
| off the highways. The GBC (Green Building Council) | | | | site. |
| makes available a huge assortment of usable data on | | | | Becoming a green builder can put a lot of green in |
| green construction design and green residential | | | | your bottom line, so start taking advantage of |
| building materials. | | | | construction recycling and reusing immediately. |
| Construction supply reprocessing will lower your | | | | |