Construction and demolition projects generate large amount of waste building materials. It is often dumped to fill up the land. Some of this material can be repurposed or recycled for different projects around home and garden. Recycled concrete is one of those materials, available free where demolition or construction work is going on. Reusing concrete is a way to reduce your construction cost offers some benefits to environment.
How to Use Old Concrete
- Raised Garden Beds–Raising garden beds few inches above the soil improves drainage.
- Retaining Walls & Terraced Gardens—Partial retaining walls can be created to control erosion or planting sites can be created for terraced garden
- Aggregate & Drainage—Old concrete is recycled to form aggregates, once it has been crushed and processed.
- Used as a bed Foundation to lay underground utilities.
- Used to make paving blocks, pots and benches
What Are The Benefits of Concrete Recycling?
- Reduce your construction waste and extend the life of landfills
- Reduce transportation costs
- Can be used as excellent aggregates for road bases, earth retention structure and slope protection
- Reduce disposal costs as landfill taxes can be avoided
How To Recycle Concrete?
Concrete is recycled with the help of crushing equipment equipped with jaws and large impactators. The entire recycling process consists of :
- Crushing
- Pre-Sizing
- Sorting
- Screening
- Contaminant Elimination
Crushing and Screening begins with primary jaws, cones or large impactators moving rubble from 30 inches to 4 feet. Scalping screen is used to remove dirt and foreign particles. A fine harp deck screen removes fine material from coarse aggregate. Recycled concrete as aggregate has higher absorption rate and low specific gravity
Afterwards, cleaning process is carried out to ensure recycled concrete products are free of clay, dirt, plastic, wood and organic materials.
We at Maple Concrete Pumping expert is delivering all kinds of concrete pouring services along with concrete recycling. We aim to complete entire construction project in skilled manner. We likewise guarantee you that service like ours you won’t get anywhere else.
