Improve your recycling and waste handling business through real-life examples and job stories from the editors at Associated Construction Publications - the leading source of information for the heavy, highway and non-residential construction industry en-us http://www.acppubs.com/community/Recycling+and+Waste+Handling/48567.html?nid=4233 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use. Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:14:20 PST http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6650910.html?nid=4233 Material handling is the name of the game at Glacier Recycle LLC in Auburn, WA. In operation just a year and a half, Glacier processes commingled recyclables and sorts them into wood, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, gypsum, concrete and asphalt, cement fiber board, asphalt roofing, cardboard, and various types of plastic. Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6652211.html?nid=4233 Reliable Recycling, Oneida (Green Bay), WI, is a metal recycler serving northeastern Wisconsin and central Upper Michigan. In addition to its headquarters recycling operation in Oneida, just west of Green Bay, the company has a branch in Gladstone, MI, and a brand new facility in Marinette, WI, just opened in January. Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6640307.html?nid=4233 It is busy at the job site these days at 271 Branch Street in Mansfield, MA, where Compo Chemical Company has their work cut out for them initiating a multimillion-dollar cleanup. The 26-1/2 acre site has a new owner — Jarrett Laraway from International Risk Group, LLC from Littleton, CO. Laraway's group specializes in cleaning up environmentally contaminated brownfield sites and returnin... Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6638315.html?nid=4233 Titan Salvage recently completed the challenging removal of one of the most notable shipwrecks in the history of the Oregon Coast. Anyone ... Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6640281.html?nid=4233 A state-owned facility, at least 100 years old, was on the list for demolition in northern Minnesota, and Landwehr Construction, St. Cloud, MN ... Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6640288.html?nid=4233 Environmental work in preparation for demolition of the one-story Delphi Technological Center in Flint, MI, began in January and demolition began in February. The project is expected to be completed in June. The facility includes an office building, a larger technical center building and some other smaller buildings. Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6640289.html?nid=4233 Approximately 70 percent, or 550,000 square feet of Livonia Mall in Livonia, MI, is being demolished. The property will be redeveloped. Adamo Demolition Company, of Detroit, MI, is the demolition contractor for the project. The Sears and Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft stores will remain. Environmental remediation began in January, and demolition work is scheduled to be completed by June. Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6640290.html?nid=4233 When it comes to recycling wood waste on Mackinac Island, MI, the city's public works director admits that he's trying to accomplish a very normal feat in a very abnormal place. Mackinac Island, nestled in the straits of Mackinac where the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan meet, is a national historic landmark and is special in the fact that motor vehicles, excluding emergency vehicles, ha... Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6638662.html?nid=4233 Implosions for all their excitement are also signs of growth. Last November 9 at 8 a.m., amidst a mounting recession, Dallas Demolition and their blasting contractor CDI brought down the 10-story, 150,000-square-foot atrium style hotel — formerly a Holiday Inn, also at one time called the Meadow Inn — along North Central Expressway at Meadow Lane in Dallas. Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6636405.html?nid=4233 As with many other New England states, Maine is facing the daunting task of dealing with an aging Interstate system. Built with concrete slabs in the early 1970s, ... Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6636776.html?nid=4233 The increased demand on U.S. infrastructure guarantees increased roadway construction and maintenance over the next 20 years, according to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). In order to help prepare for this demand, FHWA has been working to identify, develop and promote new methods to reconstruct highways and bridges that are safer, faster and more effective. Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6634942.html?nid=4233 The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) is proposing significant changes to Michigan's cleanup and redevelopment program. Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6619803.html?nid=4233 While concrete gets better with time, the technology housed within falls farther and farther behind. The Experimental Science Building at the University of Texas at Austin tells such a tale. Built in 1949, the 252,000-square-foot building had outlived its usefulness. Electrical systems could not be updated to modern technology. Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6619243.html?nid=4233 Deteriorating roads and tight budgets are a constant problem for cities and counties. As a result, engineers and public works officials are turning to a process called full-depth reclamation (FDR) with cement. This process rebuilds worn out asphalt pavements by recycling the existing roadway. The old asphalt and base materials are pulverized, mixed with cement and water, and compacted to produc... Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6619059.html?nid=4233 Mortenson Construction, Brookfield, WI, is currently recycling 100 percent of the waste generated by construction of American Transmission Co.'s new corporate headquarters in Pewaukee, WI. As of early November, construction of the 118,000-square-foot office building and 34,000-square-foot operations center had produced more than 300,000 pounds of cardboard, concrete, wood, and office-paper waste. Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6619413.html?nid=4233 Genesis Attachments has introduced the Genesis Demolition Recycler (GDR) for processing concrete, both as part of the demolition process and when debris needs further downsizing. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6617225.html?nid=4233 WasteCap Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, has presented a number of awards to companies that have been outstanding in recycling construction and demolition waste during 2008. The awards are highlighted by two nationally noted Big Diverter Awards given to Mortenson Construction and LaMacchia Group for excellent recycling rates. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6618295.html?nid=4233 "It amazed a lot of people at how fast everything came down," is how Gary Theisen described the community's reaction to watching so many landmark buildings disappear in downtown Cold Spring, MN. The change of scenery was dramatic, especially since the sprawling corporate headquarters and plant of the Cold Spring Granite Company had been there longer than most of the 3,000 folks in town have bee... Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6615962.html?nid=4233 A planned Muskegon Heights, MI, housing development hasn't even been built yet, but it's already in a museum. Mona Terrace, a residential neighborhood projected for the site of a former municipal wastewater treatment plant, is part of an exhibit that opened on October 23 at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC The year-long exhibition titled "Green Community" features communities of a... Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PST http://www.acppubs.com/article/CA6610221.html?nid=4233 It is California's wildfires season again, with the potential of destroying thousands of acres, even threatening to overtake cities and forcing evacuations. If there is any positive to this type of natural disaster, it is that communities and even companies come together for the common good. An erosion control project in the aftermath of southern California wildfires took place near Corona, lat... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PST