Reuse
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Using Salvaged Building Materials
The idea is attractive, but reuse is often hard to implement
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Paving Roads With Recycled Plastic
A Scottish company pioneers a method for using waste plastic to make tough, long-wearing roads
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Design for Disassembly
Let’s design new buildings in a way that makes it easier to remove reusable components when the building reaches the end of its life
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Lifecycle Building Center Opens in Atlanta
This new non-profit has a solid pedigree and lofty goals
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Blog Review: GreenBridge
Juli McDonald blogs about toilets, salvaged materials, and Grandma’s donuts
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Green Building Priority #6 – Ensure Durability and Reuse Existing Buildings
Number 6 in my list of the top 10 green building priorities is to ensure that the home is durably built or renovated, and to reuse existing buildings when possible rather than building new
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Deconstructing Seattle’s Deconstruction Movement
Making ecological sense of building deconstruction has been easier than reckoning with its economics. But the Seattle area is giving salvage a serious shot Financial considerations aside, it isn’t that…