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Construction & Demolition Debris

  • EPA's Construction and Demolition Waste Debris site

  • EPA's Construction Industry Compliance Assistance Website includes a tool to locate C&D regulatory information and other compliance assistance and P2 resources for your state.

  • Disaster Debris Management- EPA guide on how to plan for disaster debris.

  • WASTESPEC: Model Specification for Construction Waste Reduction, Reuse and Recycling - Free The specifications require the successful bidder to submit draft and final waste management plans aimed at reusing, salvaging, or recycling as many wastes materials as economically feasible.

  • Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence - C&D Waste Management Resources

  • HUD Guide to Deconstruction

  • National Deconstruction Training Program - Institute for Local Self Reliance

  • State of California's C&D Waste Recycler's Database

  • Inform, Inc.'s Building for the Future: Strategies to Reduce Construction and Demolition Waste in Municipal Projects Building for the Future identifies strategies that have been used successfully around the country to reduce C&D waste during the design, construction, and demolition phases of municipal building projects.

  • EPA's Characterization of Construction and Demolition Waste - 1998 overview report on the makeup of this debris

  • Building Reuse Materials Association - The BMRA is a non-profit education organization whose mission is to facilitate building deconstruction and the reuse/recycling of recovered building materials. Includes state index of members who use/buy salvaged building materials.