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Via Solve Climate …

Every year America throws away 250,000 homes.

Bulldozers are knocking down almost 700 houses every day and trucks are carting the demolition debris for burial in landfills all across the country. It’s estimated that 1.2 billion board feet of usable lumber ends up in the garbage, not to mention salvageable hardware, fixtures, wiring, piping, doors and windows.

But a new appreciation of the value of this waste stream is leading to the growth of a nascent industry: deconstruction. In a worsening economy and in the effort to create green jobs for a low-carbon future, deconstruction could prove to be a boom industry — if it wasn’t so cheap to throw things away — creating jobs, recycling valuable materials and recovering and reusing the energy embedded in these existing construction materials… READ MORE