Construction Waste Recycling in Virginia

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Construction Waste Recycling in Virginia

• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

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Virginia joins other states across the nation
with CD Recycling

• Faced with crowded landfills
• Virginia currently rely mostly on Landfills
  and transfer stations for
• processing CD waste
• Mandated recycling rate
• High Construction Costs
• Environmental concerns
• (Base on DEQ statistics) Virginia recycles 5
  of its CD waste

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CD Recycling A Growing Market

• Municipalities and States target the bulky
  material looking to reduce landfill tonnage and
  increase recycling rates.
• Recovery and processing plants are being built in
  different regions to offer contractors
  opportunity to recycle construction waste.
• However market outlets play an important role for
  the Individual commodities.
• Cost tipping fee versus processing fees
  determines whether to recycle the material or
  landfill.

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CD Recycling A Growing Market

• Private Industry and Municipalities seeks DEQ
  permitting for CD recycling.
• Private Industry and Municipalities plan material
  recovery and material marketing.
• Materials recovered from CD plants need homes of
  reuse and recycling that equals landfill
  reduction and economic savings.

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Recycling Encouraged in the Commonwealth

• Virginia Department of General Services leads the
• commonwealth in recycling construction and
  demolition
• debris and implementing green practices,
  while trying to
• minimize cost .
• The Virginia Department of General Services
  decided to recycle all the building material of
  their 14th street project of 2 abandoned
  buildings.

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CD Recycling Encouraged in the Commonwealth
Consolidated Laboratory
Motor Fuel Testing Lab.
Demolition
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CD Recycling Encouraged in the Commonwealth

• The project yielded 14,000 tons of asphalt,
  concrete, steel and other mixed debris.
• 12,750 tons of concrete were recycled on site
  through the use of a concrete crusher.
• Other materials were sent to recycling facilities
• The project had a savings min. 485,000

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CD Recycling Encouraged in the Commonwealth

Concrete
Steel
Sorted Metal
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CD Recycling Encouraged in the Commonwealth
On site crushed concrete used for backfill
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New 14th Main Street Parking Deck

• 7 levels
• 485,000 square feet
• 1,522 parking spaces

Completion on August 1, 2005
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CD Facilities in the Commonwealth
Fauquier County CD Waste Recovery Facility

In August, 2007, Fauquier County Environmental
Services opened a construction waste recovery
facility as a means to divert valuable reusable
materials from the county landfill. As green
becomes a red hot subject, Fauquier County
supports owners/builders in the region with a
means toward their LEED certification by
recycling their construction waste. Currently,
55 of our incoming construction/demolition (CD)
waste is recycled.  
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CD Facilities in the Commonwealth
On site White Wood Grinding and Stone, Brick and
Concrete Storage
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CD Facilities in the Commonwealth

S B Cox Recycling Center
S B COX RECYCLING CENTER HAS A CONSTRUCTION AND
DEOMOLITION DEBRIS MATERIAL RECOVERY FACILITY IN
HENRICO COUNTY ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE CITY OF
RICHMOND VIRGINIA
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CD Facilities in the Commonwealth

• Ace Recycling

Ace Waste is a collector and processor
specializing in construction and demolition
debris (CD) recycling. They process sorted or
unsorted CD and recycle most of it. Located in
Chester, Virginia
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CD Facilities in the Commonwealth
Waterway Recycling,LLC

• Waterway Recycling, LLC operates Waterway
  Marine Terminal, a newly constructed deepwater
  terminal located on the southern branch of the
  Elizabeth River in the port of Hampton Roads, VA.
  We have expertise in handling oversize bridge and
  pier demo, bulk material offload including
  aggregates and other dry bulks. We can support
  large volume soils transfer and other special
  projects.

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CD Facilities in the Commonwealth
Environmental Solutions, Inc.
Since 1990, Environmental Solutions, Inc. (ESI)
has dedicated itself to environmental technology
advancement for the benefit of organizational
objectives relating to Environmental Management
Solutions, or EMS Our focus is on developing and
commercializing technologies and processes that
can be deployed in the implementation of
innovative environmental solutions.
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CD Facilities in the Commonwealth
There are a little more than 14 permitted CD
Facilities in the State of Virginia. Two of
those Facilities are publicly-owned and operated
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Material Brokers
Sonoco Recycling Tidewater Fiber Canusa
Hershman Butler Paper Recycling Rock Tenn.
Recycling Green Recycling R M Brokerage Davis
Industries Recycling Resources Envision
Plastics BPR Plastics AERC Supreme Recovery S P
Recycling Allied Pallet and many others that
receive material
 
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CD recycling makes sense along with all
recycling efforts. Success in todays market
requires Vision Incentive Innovation The
key to a prosperous future is sustainability,
and triple the bottom lineenvironmental
responsibility, economic prosperity and social
equity is imperative as we move forward. Rick
Fedrizz, Pres., CEO Founding Chair, U.S. Green
Building Council    
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W. Nathaniel Townley Fauquier County
Environmental Services Commodity
Coordinator 6438 College Street Warrenton, Va.
20187 Phone  [phone]  Fax  
540-341-7129 E-Mail nathaniel.townley_at_fauquierco
unty.gov