More than $700,000 being invested to divert construction and demolition material from North Carolina landfills

Contact: Sharon Gladwell, (919) 715-6514
Date: Feb. 4, 2000
More than $700,000 being invested to divert construction and demolition material from North Carolina landfills

Raleigh - Some of North Carolina's business, industry, and governments are investing more than $700,000 to divert approximately 42,000 tons of construction and demolition (C&D) material per year from the state's landfills.

Investments include $278,700 being awarded in the form of grants from the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources' (DENR) Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance (DPPEA). This state funding will support 17 public and private sector projects for three different project categories: mixed C&D processing, source separated recovery, and market development. Matching funds totaling $427,000 will be made by grant recipients.

"Construction and demolition debris comprises about thirty percent of North Carolina's waste stream," said Gary Hunt, DPPEA's division director. "Diverting these wastes from landfills will help sustain the state's healthy environment."

This is the second grant round being supported by DENR. Altogether, DENR has provided financial assistance of about $500,000 to North Carolina business, industry, and governments for C&D diversion projects.

Projects receiving grant funding are:

· "Lamination of Scrap Lumber" expands the collection system for clean wood scraps and establishes the production of finger jointed and laminated stair treads and structural wall posts. Contact: William Juhas, R24 Lumber Company, Charlotte, N.C., (704) 587-0095.

· "Acent Construction Recycling and Reuse Initiative"euses and resells salvaged building materials from construction projects. Contact: Amanda Eichel, Accent Construction, LLC., Raleigh, N.C., (919)-833-3669.

· "Gypsum Drywall Processing" establishes a gypsum recycling facility in Charlotte, N.C. Contact: Gerry Sutton, Waste Reduction Products Corporation, Goldston, N.C., (919) 898-4105.

· "Construction Waste Material Collection and Recycling" expands a residential construction debris collection and recycling service for the Wake county area. Contact: Ozzie Gray, Construction Site Cleanup and Recycling Inc., Garner, N.C., (919) 779-4967.

· "C&D RRR [Reduce, Reuse, Recycle] Project" establishes a permanent structure for the storage of salvaged C&D materials in Pasquotank County. Contact: Michael Etheridge, Pasquotank County, N.C., (252) 335-4105.

· "Paint Recycling Project" establishes a waste paint collection and recycling service for contractors in North Carolina. Contact: P.D. Williams, Envirosafe Paints Inc., Raleigh, N.C., (919) 834-9700.

· "Gypsum Recycling" establishes a recycling facility to process gypsum for agricultural uses in the Union County area. Contact: Steve Davis, Union Gypsum, Marshville, N.C., (704) 624-2077.

· "Site Clean Up and Recycling" source separates and recycles residential construction debris in the Mecklenburg County area. Contact: Wesley O'Brian Davis, Site Clean Up and Recycling, Charlotte, N.C., (704) 948-2743.

· "Carpet Recycling" purchases collection vehicles for the recycling of used carpet. Contact: Robert Gleaves, Blue Ridge Recycling, Monroe, N.C., (704) 821-4482.

· "Recycled Enhancements" establishes a mixed C&D processing facility in Dudley, N.C. Contact: Fred C. Jones Jr., Recycled Materials Inc., Dudley, N.C., (919) 735-0004.

· "Mobile Home Recycling" establishes a mobile home recycling collection and deconstruction business. Contact: Stephen L. Brower, Salvage King Inc., Staley, N.C., (336) 622-1595.

· "Recycling Gypsum from C&D Debris" establishes the collection, transportation, and recycling of gypsum from contractors in Orange County. Contact: Robert J. Kessler, Recycling for Youth Inc., Chapel Hill, N.C., (919) 942-4830.

· "Soundside Recycling & Materials Inc." establishes a mixed construction debris processing facility in Currituck County. Contact: Horatio D. Newbern IV, Soundside Recycling & Materials Inc., Aydlett, N.C., (252) 453-3032.

· "Wood Waste Recovery at Orange Regional Landfill" establishes the separation and processing of wood waste at the Orange Regional Landfill. Contact Blair Pollock, Town of Chapel Hill, N.C., (919) 968-2788, ext 161.

· "Bagged Wood Waste Mulch" establishes the coloring and bagging of ground C&D derived wood for mulch. Contact: Roger Seale, Kamlar Corporation, Rocky Mount, N.C., (252) 443-2576.

· "Expanded Marketing and Outreach for the Habitat Reuse Center" expands the marketing efforts to increase the amount of material being donated and resold through the new, larger reuse center. Contact: Ryan Jacoby, Habitat for Humanity of Wake County, Raleigh, N.C., (919) 833-6768.

· "Mobile Home Recycling" deconstructs and recycles mobile homes at the Brunswick County C&D Landfill. Contact: J. Leslie Bell, Brunswick County, N.C., (910) 253-2033.

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