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Berks County Extreme Recycling Home Makeover To Air October 24
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The PA Recycling Markets Center, Inc. helped make an upcoming episode of ABC TV's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition a success by providing advice on how to redo a Hamburg, Pa home using recycled materials.
The episode will air on ABC Network October 24 at 8 p.m.
The RMC provided technical counsel on selection and use of recycled content building products; coordinating the use of Pennsylvania manufactured recycled content building materials with the EM: HE build team and the Berks County Home Builders Association.
The RMC also developed and managed an integrated materials management solution for reclaimable, recyclable, and waste materials generated during the project – including demolition, construction, and site-support areas.
With the RMC’s management team, more than 20 companies were coordinated to donate recycled content building products and materials management services to the project, while more than 300 organizations participated in the entire build.
Building products included manufacturing ingredients of steel, paper, aluminum, glass, plastic, compost, soil, and rubber sourced from Pennsylvania recycling collections.
In addition, through RMC’s integrated materials management solution, of the 99.0 tons of debris generated in the project, the team results include:
-- 65.93 percent of the materials generated were reused or recycled;
-- 25.07 percent of the materials were recovered for alternative energy generation; and
-- 9.0 percent of the materials were disposed.
For illustration, the weight of the reused, recycled, and recovered materials in the project, 90.09 tons, is approximately equal to the weight of one Boeing 757 Aircraft. It is estimated that more than 40,000 spectators and 2,500 volunteers working three shifts contributed to this project during a seven-day period, gaining front-line exposure to use of recycled content building products and services.
For more information, visit the PA Recycling Markets Center website.
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10/18/2010 |
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