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Everything Can Be Recycled, Even Drywall?
By Vic Hurlstorm | August 27, 2010
A few days ago, Nadine, my little step-sister ran to me and told me that her friend at school taught them that carpet could be recycled.
– No it is not recyclable, I replied mindlessly . It might be possible to use it again, but surely impossible to be recycled.
That didn’t make her stop arguing with me and even told me that those carpet recyclers had their own association in the U.S.. I decided to go on Google and searched for it. Apparently, my little friend was amazingly right. An association of carpet recyclers exist in U.S.A. And there is also a construction waste recycler in my area that handle such items. I found about Recymobilier and Recyconstruction in my city : they handle the recycling of any furniture, appliances, electronic waste and construction debris. I had a conversation with an environment specialist, John, and he was demonstrating to me about all the material that are recyclable as of now.
– Carpet is recycled for the plastic it contains, it could either end up transformed to a brand new carpet or anything else made with plastic.
– Wood waste are carried to an electrical factory, who use it to generate power. Their process is a smoke less combustion that has no impact on climate changes.
– Gypsum walls are going through machines and shredded, paper and paint are taken off, and the remaining gypsum can serve in agriculture or serve to make new gypsum walls.
And the same happens to each variety of material. It is incredibly great to understand that we are at that point. To those expecting to earn money out of their old sofa or paint, I would like to add that there are fees to recycle that type of material.
– We used to be only in the area of electronic recycling before. However, since at one point we were exclusively recycling the items that we were taking since it was not worth to resell it, we started to charge a recycling fee to some items that cost more to recycle than to send to landfill. When we realized that people were interested in making a difference for the environment and were agreeing to pay a small fee to cover our handling of the products, we decided that the time was good to add extra recycling services that couldn’t be sustainable by their content to give an alternative choice to landfill.
– Luckily, those services received an exceptional feedback, as it came to the market right in the middle of all green movements, residential or commercial. Businesses and building managers are more than aware of the green advantages, reason why more and more building owners are putting so much efforts to be LEED certified.
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