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Gypsum has online home.


The Construction Materials Recycling Association (CMRA CMRA Commercial Mail Receiving Agency
CMRA Construction Materials Recycling Association
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CMRA Capital Market Risk Advisors, Inc.
) has helped launch www.drywallrecycling.org, an online resource on how to recycle gypsum gypsum (jĭp`səm), mineral composed of calcium sulfate (calcium, sulfur, and oxygen) with two molecules of water, CaSO4·2H2O. It is the most common sulfate mineral, occurring in many places in a variety of forms.  wall-board from the construction and demolition materials stream,

The U.S. EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid.

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 Region Five funded the project, and Dr. Timothy Townsend of the University of Florida University of Florida is the third-largest university in the United States, with 50,912 students (as of Fall 2006) and has the eighth-largest budget (nearly $1.9 billion per year). UF is home to 16 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes.  compiled the information.

The site includes information on gypsum drywall and how it can be processed for other markets after use as drywall. A list of literature on the subject and state contacts for gypsum recyclers is also available

The CMRA, based near Chicago, has also launched a Web site at www.shinglerecycling.org that focuses on asphalt shingles, and plans to develop a Web site on concrete recycling.
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Title Annotation:C&D News; construction and demolition materials recycling
Comment:Gypsum has online home.(C&D News)(construction and demolition materials recycling)
Publication:Recycling Today
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1U3IL
Date:Jan 1, 2005
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