A building comes down. A road is resurfaced. A site is cleared.
But what happens to the materials that remain?
Construction and demolition materials (CDM) do not necessarily have to become waste. With the right processing, materials such as concrete, asphalt, brick and other suitable mineral materials can be recovered, crushed, screened and graded for use in new construction applications.
This is the principle behind circular construction, keeping materials in productive use for longer and reducing the need to continually extract new resources.
It means yesterday’s construction materials can become tomorrow’s infrastructure.
The benefit for your project
Using appropriately processed recycled aggregates can help you:
- Reduce demand for virgin natural resources
- Reduce the volume of suitable material going to landfill
- Keep valuable materials within the construction supply chain
- Support more circular approaches to infrastructure and development
It is a simple shift in thinking:
Waste or CDM is not always the end of a material’s journey. It can be the beginning of another one.
The opportunity is to design that next journey.
