Step 3: Recycle
Below is a chart comparing the percentage of sanitary waste recycled between the two Sandia National Laboratories sites, their respective states, and the United States as a whole.
Based on regional markets and project capabilities, both Sandia/California and Sandia/New Mexico have incredible lists of materials they are able to recycle. Below is a simple summation:
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New Mexico |
- Asphalt
- Batteries
- Beverage containers
- Cardboard
- Carpet tiles
- Ceiling tiles
- Concrete
- Coolant
- Electronic waste
- Empty containers
- Fire Extinguishers
- Fluorescent light tubes
- Freon
- Furniture
- Mercury
- Oil
- Oil filters
- Pallets
- Paper (mixed)
- Pipette boxes
- Precious metals
- Resin bottles
- Scrap metal
- Tires
- Toner & ink cartridges
- Wood
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- Asphalt
- Ballasts
- Batteries
- Brake shoes
- Capacitors
- Cardboard
- Ceiling tiles
- Circuit boards
- Computers & monitors
- Computer peripherals
- Concrete
- Coolant
- Electronics
- Food grease
- Fuels for energy recovery
- Hydraulic fluids
- Biobased (soy & canola)
- Petroleum-based
- Light bulbs
- Metals
- Aluminum cans
- Aluminum scrap
- Brass scrap
- Copper scrap
- Copper wire
- Lead
- Mercury
- Steel scrap
- All other scrap metals...
- Oil
- Oil filters
- Pallets
- Paper (mixed & white)
- Plastics (#1, #2, #5)
- Printer supplies
- Shock absorbers
- Styrofoam
- Tires & Inner tubes
- Transparencies
- Tyvek envelopes
- Tyvek garments
- Wood
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To improve the recycling rates at small remodeling and small construction projects, Sandia/New Mexico has launched two facilities:
- The Construction & Demolition (C&D) Recycle Center is designed for small projects that do not have Waste Management Plans with staged containers for recycling and waste collection, and is located centrally onsite. The intent is for project workers to segregate their waste in their trucks and bring it all to the C&D Recycle Center. Once there, each type of segregated waste can be placed in separate rolloff or tilt-hopper containers for appropriate recycling. There are containers for several kinds of metal, wood, cardboard, and even a trash rolloff to provide one-stop service for all the project waste needs. Large construction projects will have Waste Management Plans with staged containers for recycling and waste collection at their specific locations.
- The Concrete & Asphalt Accumulation Site was created to divert the heaviest contribution to the landfill from onsite construction and demolition activities. Everything from concrete truck washout to torn up pavement and demolished buildings' concrete debris can be taken to the accumulation site. Once a sufficient quantity is accumulated, a crusher is activated to reduce the concrete and asphalt to specific sized base course. The base course is then reused onsite for road and landscaping project needs. Internally sourcing the base course reduces waste and provides less expensive base course to projects while meeting still recycling expenses. This new initiative supplied 700 tons of crushed concrete base course in FY07. An additional 5000 tons were crushed for a project's base course needs in FY08.
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