Mulching Engineered Wood Products: An Alternative to Landfills

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Construction Services and Home Improvement
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Business Operations,
Corporate Governance,
Corporate Law,
Landfill
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APA - The Engineered Wood Association

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Overview: Anyone who has ever walked through a construction site knows that building a structure creates a surprising amount of wood waste. In fact, building a 2,000-square-foot house generates 1.7 tons of it, on average. Some of the construction waste is from engineered wood products (EWPs), such as oriented strand board and plywood. Most construction waste ends up in landfills. This adds to the cost of the structure because the contractor must pay twice for unused building material: once when the goods are purchased, and again when they are discarded. While some of the extra cost is passed on to the consumer, the rest comes out of the builder's profit.

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Format: PDF | Size: 37KB | Date: Nov 2004 | Pages: 2

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