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Benefits of Recycling Concrete

 

Recycled concrete aggregate offers many benefits:

  • It keeps concrete debris out of landfills, reducing wastage, extending their longevity.

  • It puts less strain on natural resources (like sand, gravel, and crushed stone) used to create new concrete.

  • Reduces costs, since new material doesn’t need to be mined. Plus, concrete disposal fees can be minimized.

  • Recycling concrete typically requires less energy compared to mining, processing, and transporting virgin aggregates.

  • Overall, recycled crushed concrete reduces environmental impact. 

Concrete recycling is a highly sustainable practice that can have a long-term positive impact on the environment

How Is Recycled Concrete Aggregate (RCA) Made?

 RCA begins as old concrete that has been removed from its original source. This usually occurs when a roadway or sidewalk is being replaced, but there are other sources for concrete recycling. Once the recycled concrete has been sourced, it can be processed. This starts with crushing.

Large concrete waste is first fed into our scalp screener to separate the fines from the larger concrete material. The oversize RCA is then crushed using our 700 hp. rotary crusher. This step in the process breaks up the original structure, reducing larger slabs and chunks into a granulated material.  

This crushing will produce 2-3 different sizes of aggregate.  Other smaller material from the Scalp screener will be fed into a smaller screener that will further produce aggregate of various smaller sizes. All recycled concrete aggregate passes through any of our 9-magnets to remove any metals. Other foreign objects are screened by our personnel and removed via various methods. The separation process of RCA allows us to offer aggregates the following products:  #2's, #4's, #8's, #53's and course (structural) sand.

How Is RCA Used?

 

RCA have a wide range of sustainable construction uses. 

Most recycled concrete that has been crushed and screened is often used as a subbase material. The material is widely used in various areas such as:

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  • Drive or parking lots

  • Pipe bedding

  • Sub-base for concrete 

  • Backfill of buildings

  • Drainage ditches as alternative to gravel

  • Septic systems

  • Ground stabilization

  • Pond or lake embankments

  • Erosion control

  • Building pads

  • Sub-base for Roads 

  • ​​​​Sound barrier embankments 

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