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| An administrative and procedural requirements for salvaging, recycling, and disposing of non-hazardous demolition and construction waste - is? |
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| Construction Waste Management |
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What is -
Waste building materials, dredging materials, tree stumps, and rubble resulting from construction, remodeling, repair, and demolition of hones, commercial buildings, and other structures and pavements. |
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| Construction & Demolition (C&D) Debris |
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| Name C&D Debris that have value |
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1 Brick
2 Metal
3 Wood
4 Carpet
5 Wallboard
6 Glass
7 Plastic
8 Cardboard
9 Lighting accessories
10 Top soil
11 Fill dirt
12 Rock |
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| For LEED, what C&D Debris are not counted towards construction waste management calculations? And why? |
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Excavated soil
Dirt
Rock
Hazardous waste
Because doing so skews the percentage of waster diverted since these materials can add significant weight/volume to the quantities. |
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| What is Comingled Recycling? |
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| When all recyclables for collection are mixed but kept separate from other waste |
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| What are the benefits of Comingled Recycling? (3) |
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Definition
1)Requires less space
2)Participation increase
3)More efficient |
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| What is the practice of designing, manufacturing, purchasing, or using materials in ways that reduce the amount of toxicity of trash created? |
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| What process stops waste at the source because it delays or avoids that item’s entry into the waste collection and disposal system |
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| What is the benefit of Building Reuse |
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Definition
| Takes advantage of structures that already exist results in the reduction of raw materials |
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| What is the benefit of Reusing Salvaged Materials? |
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Definition
| Reduces the demand for virgin materials |
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| How are On-Site vs Off-Site Salvaged Materials priced? |
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Definition
On-Site are priced at its replacement value
Off-Site are priced based what the team actually paid for it |
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| What process converts materials that would otherwise become waste into valuable resources? |
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| Which (Reduce, Ruse, Recycle) is a prerequisite of LEED? |
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| All LEED projects must recycle what? (5) |
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1)Paper
2)Corrugate Cardboard
3)Glass
4)Plastics
5)Metals |
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Term
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| A product that accepts disposal as part of its life cycle |
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| This design considers opportunities for reuse of the product, essentially a waste free product |
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| What is the definition of a 1) Regional harvest, processed, and manufactured products? |
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| The materials must be extracted, harvested, or recovered, AND manufactured within 500 miles radius of the project site |
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| What are the benefits of Regional harvest, processed, and manufactured products? |
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Definition
| They reduce transportation costs by avoiding overseas shipping long rail transport, and long-distance trucking costs. By reducing the transportation also reduces energy needs for that transportation. |
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| Rapidly Renewable Materials are? |
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Definition
| Made from plants that grow to harvestable maturity in 10 years or less |
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| Examples of Rapidly Renewable Materials |
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| What Regulation defines types of Recycled Materials? |
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| What are the environmental benefits of recycled materials? |
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Definition
| less materials being sent to waste, which mean less in landfills, and further reduces greenhouse gases/ |
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| What are the economic benefits of Recycled materials? |
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Definition
| often less expensive than virgin materials, reduce material hauling and disposal costs |
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| Define Pre-Consumer Material |
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| Material from industry scraps that was diverted from waste stream and used for other purposes. |
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| Define Pre-Consumer Content |
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| When material is incorporated into a new product - the percentage of recycle material in the new product |
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| Define Post-Consumer Material |
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| Is a waste type produced by the end of the consumer of a material stream |
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| Define Post Consumer Fiber |
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| Fibrous waster from municipal waste stream (e.g. paper or paperboard). |
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| What is the country's most recycle material? |
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| What is the benefit of a Durable Good |
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Definition
| Reduces future demand for product or material, C2C Mentality |
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Cabinets made from sawdust
What type of Material is it? |
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| Pre-Consumer Recycle Material |
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Bench, made with salvaged lumber, bamboo trim, composite plastic milk bottles, and manufactured and assembled within 500 miles
What type of Materials is it? |
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Building Reuse
Rapidly Renewable Material
Post-consumer Recycled Material
Regional Materials |
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Countertop made of recycle glasses bottles
What type of Material is it? |
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| Post-consumer recycled material |
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Bricks taken from the existing building’s wall and used from landscaping.
What type of Material is it? |
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| Materials reuse/construction waste management |
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