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Reuse and Recycling of Industrial Materials
National Product Information
EPA's Mid-Atlantic Region is committed to reducing the amount of industrial waste disposed at landfills by increasing reuse and recycling of these secondary materials. Reuse and recycling rather than disposal makes sense and we look forward to working with volunteer partners throughout the region to improve and expand ongoing efforts as well as finding new innovative approaches.
Our Region is an enthusiastic participant in EPA’s Resource Conservation Challenge – a national program aimed at more effective management of our nation’s waste.
Reusing and recycling of non-hazardous industrial materials are key to a successful resource conservation program. The beneficial use of high-volume, non-hazard industrial materials is expanding, with a number of applications gaining market and regulator acceptance. It is the aim of this Region to look for ways to increase safe reuse and recycling of these materials by developing partnerships with industries that produce the following products:
- Coal Combustion Products (CCPs) include fly ash, bottom ash, flue gas desulfurization (FGD) gypsum and wet and dry scrubber materials, boiler slag, and fluidized bed combustion (FBC) ash.
- Foundry Sand is a byproduct from the production of ferrous and nonferrous metal castings. We will be focusing our beneficial use effort primarily on non-hazardous "green sands," which use clay as binder material. Green sand is the molding media most commonly used by foundries.
- Construction and Demolition Debris (C&D Debris) includes materials generated from the construction, demolition and renovation of buildings and infrastructure (roads and bridges), and from land clearing. The beneficial use of these materials includes their safe storage, handling and use in products, resulting in such environmental benefits as: less use of virgin materials, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, less energy and water use and less waste.