The hierarchy of processing modes

🏗️🌍 Building the future means reducing waste!

Discover the hierarchy of processing methods and how it can transform our approach to materials, resources and waste management in construction ⬇️

1️⃣ Prevention: Avoiding the extraction of natural raw materials by minimizing waste from the outset. This involves sustainable designs, using recycled materials, reducing resource consumption, and extending lifespans.

2️⃣ Reuse: Giving products a second life for the same purpose for which they were originally intended. For example, reusing sanitary ware, carpet, or bricks as they are in new construction projects.

3️⃣ Reuse for new applications: Reusing products by diverting them from their original purpose for new applications. Imagine transforming the timbers of an old building into furniture or decorative elements.

4️⃣ Recycling: Transforming waste into new materials or products. Concrete debris can be transformed into aggregates for new construction, and organic waste can be composted to enrich our soils.

5️⃣ Energy recovery: Using waste to produce heat or energy. Methanization, for example, produces biogas from organic waste. Solid Recovered Fuel (SRF) is the term used when waste is used as an alternative to our usual fuels.

6️⃣ Disposal: A last resort, landfilling or incineration without energy recovery. This option should be avoided whenever possible due to its negative environmental impact.

And of course, the best waste is the one that doesn't exist ;)