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There is an on-going and over-arching decision to continue with the most wasteful practices in the world until someone – “someone else” – does something about it. There have been lies, mythology, and the complicit abdication of responsibility at industrial scale by several connected industries… for 150years. I call that “The Shrug Economy.” They shrug off responsibility for that waste.
(Originally posted on LinkedIn on February 20, 2025)
Here’s the problem: Construction & Demolition Waste is the largest source of “waste” materials in America. This sector creates two times more waste every year than ALL the trash and garbage thrown away by all 330,000,000 Americans all year long. And, it’s growing faster than all the efforts to stop it.
For Reuse of building materials to expand in the United States and North America, the size of projects that can incorporate these materials needs to be expanded.