CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL RECYCLING

• Buildings are made from many materials, many of which are recyclable such as metal, wood, glass, etc.
• Metals used for construction generally include steel, iron etc. The metals could be recycled according to their specifications.
• Wood and glass materials used in construction could be recycled with the appropriate recycling methods.
• Some construction items could be re-sold to the architectural salvage yards.
• Most of the building materials such as wood and bricks could be re-used.
• The recycling of bricks can be broken down into several different categories:

1. Demolition materials - Mixture of materials resulting from demolition of buildings
2. Salvaged materials - building materials salvaged from the materials remaining after demolition
3. Reclaimed building materials - The materials that can be generated from the careful demolition of an old building by hand which are suitable for reuse in their original form
4. Recycled building materials - The materials that can be generated from the careful demolition of an old building which are suitable for re-use as raw materials in the manufacture of new materials
1. Brick recycling involves the following steps:
   1. Crushing- There are lots of commercial brick crushers available today. They are capable of crushing the masonry into fine rubble.
   2. Recycling- The crushed rubble are again cleaned and used to create new bricks.

Advantages of brick recycling:

1. Bricks do not require disposal
2. Recycling reduces the waste dumped in landfill sites
3. Brick recycling saves the need to extract new raw materials from the earth
4. The cleaned bricks are an asset.