Construction materials are everywhere we look, the floor we are standing on, the roof over our heads, in any man-made infrastructure you can think of. However, these materials did not just magically appear. They come from the exploitation of natural environments, extracting tons of raw materials from mountains for cement, forests for wood, seacoasts for sand and rivers for gravel to mention a few. In this one-use linear process, we pay a high price in the shape of air pollution, increasing the global temperature and contamination of drinkable water.
For the removal of the demolition waste, we need ever more and larger landfills. According to our research, every new building requires 97% of new materials and only 3% are reused from demolished buildings. So, why wouldn’t the construction sector recycle existing materials from demolished buildings? Our research reveals the following:
It is difficult to know what materials are in their surrounding buildings, how valuable they are, and what to do with them. Without mentioning the hassle that is to assess it.
In Fair by Nature, we want to tackle that problem and thus came up with the Fair Urban Mining (FUM) Tool. A tool that aims to take the construction sector from linear to circular.
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