Crush
Waste Concrete & Masonry for Reuse
Crush
waste concrete, asphalt and acceptable masonry
for use as granular fill and aggregate, or contract
with a company that will accept these materials
for recycling.
This
is best done on site for demolition of buildings
and site work on large sites, or where truck
access to the site is a problem, since it reduces
the volume of materials needing to be trucked.
On
smaller sites, contract with a company that
will truck materials to a facility with a crusher.
Clay brick and clay tile is generally not accepted.
The
project engineer and soils consultant must verify
specifications of crushed materials to be reused.
Cautions
- Crushers
take space and are very noisy and dusty. They
are usually appropriate only on large sites
where they can be isolated from close neighbors.
Few sites in Santa Monica allow for on-site
crushing. There is usually a delivery and
minimum set-up cost, as well as an operating
cost. Compare the cost of trucking to a crusher
site for each project.
