CMRA bill signed in California.Senate Bill 420, which will require the California Department of Transportation The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is a government agency in the U.S. state of California. Its mission is to improve mobility across the state. It manages the state highway system and is actively involved with public transportation systems in California. to use recycled aggregates in state paving projects unless economically unfeasible, has been signed into law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): [ˈaɐ̯nɔlt ˈaloɪ̯s ˈʃvaɐ̯ʦənˌʔɛɡɐ] . The Construction Materials Recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. Association (CMRA CMRA Commercial Mail Receiving Agency CMRA Construction Materials Recycling Association CMRA Central Motorcycle Roadracing Association CMRA Capital Market Risk Advisors, Inc. ) proposed the bill to the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality. The CMRA Issues & Education Fund also supported the bill on its march through the legislature. CMRA members testified in front of various committees and talked with legislators to gain support for the bill, which is expected to increase the use of recycled aggregates in the state. "Not only is this bill good for recyclers," says William Turley, executive director of CMRA and associate publisher of Construction & Demolition Demolition is the opposite of construction: the tearing-down of buildings and other structures. It contrasts with deconstruction, which is the taking down of a building while carefully preserving valuable elements for re-use. Recycling, "it also is good for the taxpayers in the state because in most parts of California recycled aggregates for roadbase are priced lower than natural aggregate, or at least the same price, and they are almost always nearer to the project," he adds. |
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