Coming soon: concrete facts.* At its 2004 mid-year meeting in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , the Construction Materials Recycling Association (CMRA CMRA Commercial Mail Receiving Agency CMRA Construction Materials Recycling Association CMRA Central Motorcycle Roadracing Association CMRA Capital Market Risk Advisors, Inc. ) board of directors gave the green light to several initiatives, including the establishment of an Internet home for concrete recycling When structures made of concrete are to be demolished, concrete recycling is an increasingly common method of disposing of the rubble. Concrete debris was once routinely shipped to landfills for disposal, but recycling has a number of benefits that have made it a more attractive knowledge. After previous consideration, the CMRA board approved the development of a concrete recycling Web page that will be found at www.concreterecyding.org. The site will list the known benefits and engineering characteristics of recycled concrete. Several possible partners to help develop the site are being discussed, as is consideration of a research firm that will help develop the content of the site. The board also approved the creation of a best management practices guide for the use of C&D fines. The best management practices guide had been planned before the New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). Department of Environmental Services The various combinations of scientific, technical, and advisory activities (including modification processes, i.e., the influence of manmade and natural factors) required to acquire, produce, and supply information on the past, present, and future states of space, atmospheric, (DES) announced its ban on C&D fines in MSW (MicroSoft Word) See Microsoft Word. landfills (See both the Editor's Focus, pg. 4 of this issue, as well as the sidebar news item found on pg. 24). The CMRA now plans to approach the New Hampshire agency to work with it to develop the guide. Other planned participants include landfill operators and regulatory agencies from other states, according to William Turley, executive director of the CMRA. In other action, the board agreed to consider another opportunity to do more testing on recycling concrete with lead-based paint on it, similar to what the CMRA did earlier this year in cooperation with the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory of the Army Corps of Engineers and the National Demolition Association. |
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