Recycled waste lives on as a cheaper, greener road base material after rocky start

Australia produces about 20 million tonnes of construction and demolition waste each year, but have you ever wondered where it all goes?

Australia produces about 20 million tonnes of
construction and demolition waste each year.

It could have been used to build the road you're driving on, the shopping centre carpark you use, or it might have formed the foundations for a newly-built industrial building.

About 65 to 70 per cent of building waste produced by the construction and demolition industry is being recycled into new products like hard sands, drainage rock and road base. Any contaminated rubble is generally sent to landfill.

But its potential to build new roads is what the recycling industry is targeting because it uses such large amounts of the product.

Read the ABC News story by Kathryn Diss - “Recycled waste lives on as a cheaper, greener road base material after rocky start.”