how much construction waste is produced?
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In 2017, the industry generated 20.4 million tons (or megatonnes, MT) of waste from construction and demolition, such as for road and rail maintenance and land excavation. Typically, the waste from these activities include bricks, concrete, metal, timber, plasterboard, asphalt, rock and soil.
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According to the EU legislation the biodegradable fraction of municipal and industrial waste is considered biomass, thus a renewable energy source. The energy output from Waste-to-Energy plants is about 50% renewable.
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The Construction Industry Council says there are about 320,000 registered construction workers but only about 70,000 are active. It has estimated that the city needs 10,000 additional workers in the coming four years.
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Recycling aluminum cans saves 95 percent of the energy needed to make new cans from raw materials. Recycling steel and tin cans saves 60 to 74 percent; recycling paper saves about 60 percent; and recycling plastic and glass saves about one-third of the energy compared to making those products from virgin materials.
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It is obtained by multiplying actual units of production by the standard material quantity per unit. For example, a company actually produced 2000 units during the month of March. The standard material quantity required to produce one unit of output was 5 pounds.
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The Construction industry generates over $360 billion in revenue, producing around 9% of Australia's Gross Domestic Product, and has a projected annual growth rate of 2.4% in the next five years. Most businesses in this industry are either sole traders or very small, employing less than 20 people.
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Physical and chemical characteristics of solid waste are important to implement the waste disposal and management plan for the selection of resource and energy recovery potentials. A number of studies have been conducted to determine the composition of wastes including moisture content and calorific value.
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In 2018, one ton (2,000 pounds) of MSW burned in waste-to-energy plants in the United States generated about 534 kilowatthours (kWh) of electricity, or about the amount of electricity used by 18 U.S. households in one day.
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amount of materials that should have been used to manufacture units of output during a period. It is obtained by multiplying actual units of production by the standard material quantity per unit. For example, a company actually produced 2000 units during the month of March.
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Total process energy for the case of maximum recycling is about 6.6 x 106 Btu plus 551 kWh per ton of containers, or 12.4 x 106 Btu of primary energy. About 16% of the processing-fuel savings will be offset by additional transportation energy in the recycling loop.
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The UK's biggest consumer of natural resources is the construction industry, according to Wrap. A recent study by WRAP details that the sector uses 400 million tonnes of material every year, which results in 100 million tonnes of waste being produced.
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TSheets' data shows that just 1 percent of the construction workforce currently works more than 40 hours a week, but when they do, these employees work, on average, an extra 9.6 hours. This means 69,000 construction workers across the US worked almost 50 hours this week.
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In the year April 2017 to April 2018, 38 construction workers died in their workplace – accounting for 26% of all work place fatalities. While on the previous year a total of 31 workers died from fatal workplace accidents.
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Wood—logs, chips, bark, and sawdust—accounts for about 44 percent of biomass energy. But any organic matter can produce biomass energy. Other biomass sources can include agricultural waste products like fruit pits and corncobs. Wood and wood waste are used to generate electricity.
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Tonnage Cost: Comingled construction/demolition debris = $109 per ton. (If household garbage or other non-construction debris items are found, like mattresses, couches, etc., then the cost is $150 per ton + 3.6% WA State Refuse tax and extra charges may apply if incurred by our recycling partners.)
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Food Processing: Processing those raw ingredients and producing the finished food product requires 1.6 quadrillion Btu of energy per year, or 16 percent of the total energy consumed for food production.
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Americans throw away 35 billion plastic bottles every year. Only about 25% of the plastic produced in the U.S. is recycled. If we recycled the other 75% we could save 1 billion gallons of oil and 44 million cubic yards of landfill space annually.