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Industrial Materials Recycling 101, June 18, 2009
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provide a unique and great opportunity to encourage sustainable building practices. A key component of sustainable building is using recycled industrial materials as an alternative to virgin construction materials. Industrial materials are the byproducts of industrial processes. Each year U.S. industries produce over half a billion tons of industrial residuals that are potentially usable materials such as coal combustion products, construction and demolition materials, spent foundry sand, used tires, and iron and steel slag. Many of these materials have chemical and physical properties that make them valuable resources when recycled or beneficially used, but they are often disposed of as waste.
Recycling, rather than disposing, these materials can conserve resources, reduce energy use and costs, decrease greenhouse gas emissions, and reduce costs for both the generators and the end users of the materials. In some cases, recycled industrial materials can even improve the quality of the products in which they are used. For example, recycling coal fly ash as a replacement for Portland cement enhances the strength, durability, and workability of concrete.
Join us to learn about the opportunities for recycling and beneficially using industrial materials in construction applications, and the associated environmental, economic, and performance benefits. Panelists will share their successful project experiences using recycled industrial materials.
Who: This webinar is for Federal, state, local and tribal government waste management professionals, industry, public works officials, state and local transportation professionals, architects, and developers.
Speakers
Craig H. Benson PhD, PE is Co-Director of the Recycled Materials Resource Center (RMRC) and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. For the last 20 years, Dr. Benson has been conducting research in geoenvironmental engineering, including various aspects related to the reuse of industrial byproducts in civil and geotechnical engineering. Dr. Benson will provide an overview of what are industrial materials, why they can be used, the environmental and performance benefits of using these materials, available tools and resources, and the RMRC's efforts in industrial materials recycling.
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