36 apartments are being built in Salzburg. The building materials for this are recycled from the old stock and reused. For the first time also old plasterboard.
Concrete, glass, metal and plasterboard remain following the gutting of a laboratory building at the University of Salzburg on Billrothstrasse in Salzburg. The building materials that were installed in 1974 should not be considered hazardous waste or building rubble. The fact that glass, concrete and metals are returned to the cycle and are easily recyclable is now common practice. The overarching goal: Landfilling and thus the CO2 emissions due to new production must be avoided. Now a consortium of companies also wants to recycle old sheetrock and is starting a …
