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How an Online Platform can Reduce Waste in the Construction Industry • WasteShare is an online public forum with the goal of connecting people that have reusable waste to those who can turn it into something useful. • WasteShare decreases the amount of waste that would end up in landfills or polluting streets and oceans. • This project takes WasteShare, and envisions it implemented in the construction industry, a major producer of heavy material waste. • Many construction companies strive to have LEED certification by recycling most of their waste and building projects to certain standards. • It costs more to recycle material per ton through a dumpster company than allowing that material to go to landfill, but this cost is worked into the project budget as a standard. • Wood was thrown out the most on job sites, but significant amounts of metals are also produced. • At City Arts II (80,449 sq. ft), about 89.8% of waste was recycled, leaving about 30 tons out of 300 for landfill. • Remington Row (250,000 sq. ft), left 721 tons for landfill but still managed to recycle 87.05% of it’s waste. • Zion Towers (211 Units) used 33 dumpsters each holding 20 cubic yards of waste Construction Material Waste About 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 Tons Construction Material Data Remington Row City Arts II Wood Aparna Samarakoon Dr. Alan Peel Etosha Lankatilleke Steve Merson Quynn Nguyen Tom Peli Malindi Lankatilleke Acknowledgements • Organizations such as Habitat For Humanity collect extra cabinets or working amenities rather than allowing them to be taken by dumpster companies. These numbers are not reflected in the data. • The biggest concern with implementing WasteShare for such a large-scale industry is facilitating how much and what waste gets upcycled as projects are under tough time constraints and already manage multiple things a day. • Workers also try to take scrap materials they can reuse, which is not reflected in the data. Talking to the Industry • Facilitating interactions between construction project managers and upcyclers on WasteShare would be the biggest step to implement the site in the industry in order to have as much waste out of landfills as possible, while also being conscious of project schedules. Going Forward • WasteShare currently doesn’t have the traction of major social media platforms as it is relatively new. • It is currently used by artists and crafts people looking for materials. Limitations Mavishka Lankatilleke | [email protected] Science, Discovery, and the Universe | Materials Science and Engineering Paper Products Analysis Remington Row (top) and City Arts II (bottom) Waste produced by these sites are graphed (left) Pictures from Southway Builders Inc. Portfolio Aparna Samarakoon drying and refining Cigarette butts for ApiHappi bean bag filling, the idea that created WasteShare. Picture from ApiHappi Metal Plastic Tom Peli of Southway Builders Inc. upcycled wood from a construction site he worked on to make a nice shed in his backyard. Pictures provided by Tom Peli
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How an Online Platform can Reduce Waste in the Construction Industry
• WasteShare is an online public forum with the goal of connecting people that have reusable waste to those who can turn it into something useful.
• WasteShare decreases the amount of waste that would end up in landfills or polluting streets and oceans.
• This project takes WasteShare, and envisions it implemented in the construction industry, a major producer of heavy material waste.
• Many construction companies strive to have LEED certification by recycling mostof their waste and building projects to certain standards.
• It costs more to recycle material per ton through a dumpster company than allowing that material to go to landfill, but this cost is worked into the project budget as a standard.
• Wood was thrown out the most on job sites, but significant amounts of metals are also produced.
• At City Arts II (80,449 sq. ft), about 89.8% of waste was recycled, leaving about 30 tons out of 300 for landfill.
• Remington Row (250,000 sq. ft), left 721 tons for landfill but still managed to recycle 87.05% of it’s waste.
• Zion Towers (211 Units) used 33 dumpsters each holding 20 cubic yards of waste
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Remington Row City Arts II
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Aparna Samarakoon Dr. Alan PeelEtosha Lankatilleke Steve MersonQuynn Nguyen Tom PeliMalindi Lankatilleke
Acknowledgements
• Organizations such as Habitat For Humanity collect extra cabinets or working amenities rather than allowing them to be taken by dumpster companies. These numbers are not reflected in the data.
• The biggest concern withimplementing WasteShare for such a large-scale industry is facilitating how much and what waste gets upcycled as projects are under tough time constraints and already manage multiple things a day.
• Workers also try to take scrap materials they can reuse, which is not reflected in the data.
Talking to the Industry
• Facilitating interactions between construction project managers and upcyclers on WasteSharewould be the biggest step to implement the site in the industry in order to have as much waste out of landfills as possible, while also being conscious of project schedules.
Going Forward
• WasteShare currently doesn’t have the traction of major social media platforms as it is relatively new.
• It is currently used by artists and crafts people looking for materials.
Limitations
Mavishka Lankatilleke | [email protected]
Science, Discovery, and the Universe | Materials Science and Engineering
Paper Products
Analysis
Remington Row (top) and City Arts II (bottom)Waste produced by these sites are graphed (left)Pictures from Southway Builders Inc. Portfolio
Aparna Samarakoon drying and refining Cigarette butts for ApiHappi bean bag filling, the idea that created WasteShare.Picture from ApiHappi
Metal Plastic
Tom Peli of Southway Builders Inc. upcycled wood from a construction site he worked on to make a nice shed in his backyard.Pictures provided by Tom Peli
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