Encouraging Reuse over Recycling in the Building Industry
The path recycling has taken over the past couple of decades has been a promising one. Inroads into the consumer market have been tremendously successful with recycling programs in many cities across the country. For one of the country’s largest industries however, the construction industry, there is a lot of room for improvement.
Construction projects routinely over-order material to avoid shortfalls and keep projects on time. In many cases, this excess material is regularly thrown away because there is no need for it.
One company is setting out to change all that.
CMDepot.com is a website that helps construction companies “visualize” their excess material. By being able to see what excess material they have, companies can better utilize it. Today, most projects within a company do not know what excess material is available outside of their own project. CMDepot is changing that. By cataloging their excess material using CMDepot.com, companies can quickly look for material across all of their projects in a region. If excess material is available that fits their needs, they can pull from it and save money.
While recycling is a green practice, even greener yet is reuse.
