| Overall Rating | Silver |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 61.45 |
| Liaison | Natalie Sobrinski |
| Submission Date | Dec. 23, 2022 |
Muhlenberg College
OP-19: Construction and Demolition Waste Diversion
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
0.91 / 1.00 |
Richard
Waligora Capital Projects Manager Plant Operations |
Construction and demolition materials recycled, donated, or otherwise recovered:
Construction and demolition materials landfilled or incinerated:
Percentage of construction and demolition materials diverted from the landfill or incinerator through recycling, donation and/or other forms of recovery:
A brief description of programs, policies, infrastructure investments, outreach efforts, and/or other factors that contributed to the diversion rate for construction and demolition waste:
Construction and demolition materials recycled, donated, or otherwise recovered: “The Fahy Commons project produced 1266.70 tons of waste materials. The recycling program was successful in diverting 1157.81 tons, or 91.4% of these materials from landfills.” This project was worked on from 2020-2022.
Construction and demolition materials landfilled or incinerated: 108.89 tons
Rubble (brick, block, asphalt, masonry, etc.) is hauled to a local recycler and crushed into aggregate products. This material is hauled to a quarry where it is processed (crushed and screened) into a variety of fill products (backfill, sub-base, road-base etc.)
Metal is consolidated locally, processed, shipped to a recycler or large consolidator. The material is shredded and cleaned at the processor before being shipped to a mill where it is forged into new metal products.
Wood waste is taken to a mulch processor where it is ground into mulch and compost products.
This material is used as a fertilizer and in landscaping.
Trash materials include packing foam, fines (dust and very fine waste materials), composite materials, miscellaneous plastics, worker trash and other materials. Trash is disposed of in landfills.
Drywall is hauled to a processor where the material is ground and screened. The separated gypsum is processed into a soil amendment, fertilizer and conditioner. Scrap drywall paper is screened off and used in animal bedding and for other purposes.
Recovered Recyclables Commingled material was brought to a material reclamation facility. Materials listed above were
recovered (separated and processed) from the commingled loads via manual and automated sorting. Per LEED, the
project can use the facility's average annual recycling rate to estimate the quantity of material recovered from
commingled loads during the following year. Rates for facilities that received project waste are listed in additional doccumentation.
Cardboard is consolidated, baled and shipped to a recycler for manufacturing into new paper products.
Plastics were commingled with
other debris on-site, separated and
baled at Revolution Recovery, and sent
to a processor to be manufactured into
recycled plastic products.
Website URL where information about the institution’s C&D waste diversion efforts is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Natalie Sobrinski contributed to this reporting.
Natalie Sobrinski contributed to this reporting.
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