PICVISA OFFERS SOLUTIONS TO THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

Construction and demolition activities generate enormous volumes of waste – concrete, wood, metals, glass, plastics and more, often mixed together in ways that make recovery difficult without proper sorting. Given the scale involved, even modest improvements in sorting accuracy for this waste stream translate into significant quantities of material either recovered or lost.

THE IMPACT OF WASTE

Construction and demolition waste represents one of the largest waste streams by weight in most countries, and much of it is, in principle, recoverable – concrete can be crushed and reused as aggregate, wood can be processed for biomass or reuse, metals have well-established recycling markets. The gap between this potential and actual recovery rates is largely a question of sorting capability.

RETHINKING THE SYSTEM

Much construction waste has historically been sent to landfill with minimal sorting, partly because the mixed, bulky nature of the material makes manual sorting impractical at the volumes involved. Rethinking this means treating construction waste the way other waste streams have increasingly been treated – as a resource that requires the right sorting infrastructure to recover, rather than as material destined for landfill by default.

NEXT STEPS

For companies in the construction sector, the next steps involve both generating less waste in the first place – through better material planning and deconstruction practices – and ensuring that the waste that is generated can be sorted into recoverable streams rather than mixed residue.

How do we achieve this?

Sorting technology capable of handling the size range and material diversity typical of construction and demolition waste is central to achieving this. PICVISA's optical sorting systems, adaptable to the kind of mixed, variable material streams that construction waste represents, provide the sorting capability that construction and demolition recycling facilities need to turn this large waste stream into a genuine source of recovered materials rather than a landfill problem.

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