Recycling underway at North Carolina demo project.* A variety of material from concrete to bricks to scrap metal has been removed and recycled from the former Pillowtex mill complex in Kannapolis, N.C., according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a report in the Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.). D.H. Griffin Wrecking Co. of Greensboro, N.C., plans to recycle re·cy·cle tr.v. re·cy·cled, re·cy·cling, re·cy·cles 1. To put or pass through a cycle again, as for further treatment. 2. To start a different cycle in. 3. a. 80 percent of the material generated by the 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. project, according the report. About 500,000 tons of material will be recycled from the nearly 6 million-square-foot site. Bricks and concrete are being crushed into 400,000 tons of gravel gravel, particles of rock, i.e., stones and pebbles, usually round in form and intermediate in size between sand grains and boulders. Gravel is composed of various kinds of rock, the most common constituent being the mineral quartz. , which is being used as fill on the site and to help build temporary roads. The company will also recycle 10,000 tons of scrap steel, according to the report. |
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