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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 97 12:23 WET DST From: FRIEDMAN.FRED@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV (Fred Friedman) Subject: Re: C D waste stream (Marques Inacio)
Sept. 11, 1997
Dear Marques Inacio,
There are 2 characterizations of the statistical and toxicity components of c d waste:
Waste Reduction Recycling of Residential Construction Debris: A Pilot Project by Office of Recycling, Dept. of Environmental Resources, Prince George's County, MD conducted in 11/93.
Demolition Age , October, 1993. PO Box 2329, Doylestown, PA 18901
A third one is contained in a how-to manual called Residential Construction Waste Management: A Builder's Field Guide by the NAHB Research Center, 400 Prince George's Blvd., Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
A fourth one that I have a copy of but have not read is Illinois Construction and Demolition Site Recycling Guidebook by IL DCCA, whose telephone # is: 217-785-2800.
As to predictive and managerial models, an automated on devoted to construction waste reduction, reuse, and recycling is called WasteSpec and is published by the Triangle J Council of Governments , PO Box 12276, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 in 7/95.
In fairness to automated models of solid waste more generally like the one done by Henry Taylor of MIT and the one done by Tellus Institute, Boston, MA, while these are planning models for governments to make choices about how to manage their solid waste generally, they also do comprise a c d component which, in each case, is fine as a real world applicator.
You would be advised to check into some of these as well, particularly as a graduate student with the need to create the illusion of objectivity.
- Research Library for RCRA