Construction & Demolition Waste Manual - New York City

Construction & Demolition Waste Manual

City of New York

Department of Design and Construction

Prepared for NYC Department of Design & Construction by Gruzen Samton LLP with City Green Inc. May 2003

This document is an introduction and resource handbook for construction and demolition (C&D) waste reduction, reuse and recycling on New York City Projects. Its basic goal is to assist design and construction professionals to prevent construction waste and to divert from landfills the C&D waste that is generated. The guidelines are addressed to all the participants in projects for the NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC) Administrators and managers from DDC; Architects and their consultants; Construction Managers; and Contractors. C&D Waste management is a cooperative effort. DDC's Office of Sustainable Design supports and encourages committed action with this handbook.

executive acknowledgements

Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor City of New York

Louie Rueda, RA, Deputy Commissioner, Structures Division NYC Department of Design and Construction

Kenneth Holden, Commissioner NYC Department of Design and Construction

Anne Papageorge, RLA, First Deputy Commissioner NYC Department of Design and Construction

Margot A. Woolley, AIA, Assistant Commissioner, Architecture + Engineering NYC Department of Design and Construction

John Krieble, RA, Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Design NYC Department of Design and Construction

Construction & Demolition Waste Manual

Table of Contents

1 Overview of C&D Reduction and Recycling

1

2 Strategies for Implementation

11

DDC - Strategies & Responsibilities

12

Design Team - Strategies

14

Construction Team - Strategies

18

3 Implementation Resources

23

May 2003

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Solid waste management is undergoing dramatic change throughout the United States. It has become one of the largest budget costs for local governments. Landfills are reaching capacity, with thousands scheduled to close within the next few years. The construction of new facilities for either recycling or disposal is enormously contentious, fueling ongoing battles between waste exporting and waste importing states. This is a particular issue for New York City, which no longer has any disposal facilities and must export all the waste it does not recycle.

The closure of Fresh Kills Landfill, New York City's last remaining landfill, has resulted in a $400 million annual increase in the NYC Department of Sanitation's budget since 1996, and the City's shift to waste export no doubt provided added impetus for the $4 per ton tax that Pennsylvania recently imposed on waste disposed of in its landfills. Opposition to the construction of new rail-and-barge-served transfer facilities in NYC has resulted in a waste export system that is almost entirely dependent on trucks, aggravating local air quality and congestion problems with hundreds of thousands of additional trucks each year. In the 1990s, tipping fees for disposal at transfer stations in NYC were in the $50's per ton range. Currently they are in the mid-$60's to $80 per ton range, and are expected to continue to rise. Nearby states are in the same situation. Connecticut is running out of landfill capacity, specifically for construction and demolition debris, and Massachusetts is considering a disposal ban on certain construction and demolition waste materials, such as asphalt, concrete, metal and wood. Chartwell Information projects a 63% price increase at mid-Atlantic landfills by 2010.

Three Construction & Demolition Waste Pathways

C&D waste

metal

wood

masonry

cardboard

salvage

separate containers on site

other

metal recycler

wood recycler

masonry recycler

cardboard recycler

nonprofit

transfer station

C&D waste

mixed C&D waste

site

mixed C&D waste

processor

mmeettaall

mmaassoonnrryy

debris

metal recycler

masonry recycler

transfer station

C&D waste

mixed C&D waste

site

transfer station

landfill

Overview DDC Reducing And Recycling Construction & Demolition Waste

landfill landfill

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