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2. Concrete recycling - Wikipedia

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   Concrete recycling is the use of rubble from demolished concrete structures. Recycling is cheaper and more ecological than trucking rubble to a landfill. [1] Crushed rubble can be used for road gravel, revetments, retaining walls, landscaping gravel, or raw material for new concrete. Large pieces can be used as bricks or slabs, or incorporated ...

3. Pavers (flooring) - Wikipedia

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   The concrete paving bricks are a porous form of brick formed by mixing small stone hardcore, dyes, cement and sand and other materials in various amounts. Many block paving manufacturing methods are now allowing the use of recycled materials in the construction of the paving bricks, such as crushed glass and crushed old building rubble.

4. 5 common recyclable materials for greener building - AOL

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   Concrete. Most recycled concrete—301.2 million tons in 2018, per the EPA—gets reused as aggregate. This can then get made into new concrete or be used as fill or base material in building ...

5. Recycling by material - Wikipedia

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   Crushing concrete from an airfield Concrete recycling is the use of rubble from demolished concrete structures. Recycling is cheaper and more ecological than trucking rubble to a landfill. [3] Crushed rubble can be used for road gravel, revetments, retaining walls, landscaping gravel, or raw material for new concrete. Large pieces can be used ...

6. Environmental impact of concrete - Wikipedia

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   Recycled crushed concrete being loaded into a semi-dump truck to be used as granular fill Concrete recycling is an increasingly common method of disposing of concrete structures. Concrete debris was once routinely shipped to landfills for disposal, but recycling is increasing due to improved environmental awareness, governmental laws and ...

7. Recycling by product - Wikipedia

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   Concrete aggregate collected from demolition sites is put through a crushing machine, often along with asphalt, bricks, dirt, and rocks. Smaller pieces of concrete are used as gravel for new construction projects. Crushed recycled concrete can also be used as the dry aggregate for new concrete if it is free of contaminants.