“In road construction, we achieve the highest recycling rates of almost 96 percent. Through local processing and reuse by means of innovative extraction and recycling processes, we are implementing the circular economy idea almost optimally here,” explained Tim-Oliver M\u00fcller, Managing Director of the Main Association of the German Construction Industry.<\/p>\n
“This is also technically possible in other areas if the political framework conditions are consistently aligned with the goal of the circular economy.”<\/p>\n
“Selective dismantling and strict separation contribute to the fact that more than 94% of construction rubble can now be put to new uses. In order to leverage remaining potential, the political goals must be implemented in the administrations and sales markets established, for which the product status of quality-monitored and repeatedly tested substitute building materials is indispensable,” stated Andreas Pocha, Managing Director of the German Demolition Association.<\/p>\n
This assessment is shared by Christine Buddenbohm, Managing Director of the Federal Association for Recycled Building Materials. “The quality-assured substitute building materials produced by our companies are subject to self-monitoring and external monitoring and meet high quality standards. However, we continue to see that acceptance among both private and public builders can be increased.”<\/p>\n
Public sector should have a pioneering role\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n In order to increase acceptance, Peter Kurth, Managing President of the Federal Association of German Waste, Water and Recycling Management, and Sandra Giern, Managing Director of the Federal Association of Recycled Building Materials, see the public sector as having a duty to take on a proactive pioneering role.<\/p>\n “In the case of existing construction projects, the public sector must commit itself to ensuring that no demolition is carried out without prior pollutant exploration, selective dismantling and the best possible processing of the material in order to recycle substitute building materials as accurately as possible,” demanded Peter Kurth.<\/p>\n Sandra Giern also expects the public sector to make greater commitment to sustainable procurement. “The currently prescribed limited preferential obligation is not practicable and must be replaced by a mandatory use of substitute building materials in public construction projects. Only if there is a conclusive justification why such an application is not feasible may the use of substitute building materials be dispensed with in the future.”<\/p>\n Felix Pakleppa, Managing Director of the Central Association of the German Construction Industry, sees the legal regulation on the end of waste status promised by the Federal Environment Ministry as a further decisive lever.<\/p>\n “A waste end ordinance will promote the use of mineral substitute building materials much more. Such a regulation would achieve more for the circular economy than a discussion about product-specific recycling quotas”. The possibility of not letting the material become waste in the first place should also be examined.<\/p>\n The participants see it as a joint task to use more substitute building materials in the manufacture of new products in the future, if resources and climate can be conserved even better as a result.<\/p>\n The monitoring reports “Mineral construction waste” are available free of charge on the Internet under www.kreislaufwirtschaft-bau.de.<\/p>\n From left to right:\u00a0 Berlin, 15.2.2023: “The environmental impact of buildings in operation is present to everyone who has only a few at the beginning and at the end of a building’s life. Thanks to the commitment of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2411,"featured_media":41590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3689],"tags":[4401,4399,3701,4400],"class_list":["post-41626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-association-news","tag-mineral-construction-waste","tag-monitoring-report","tag-recycling-en","tag-substitute-building-materials"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Von](\"https:\/\/www.deutscher-abbruchverband.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/02-265x170.jpg\")
– Ren\u00e9 Hagemann, HDB
– Dr. Matthias Frederichs, bbs
– Rolf B\u00f6singer, BMWSB
– Felix Pakleppa, ZDB
– Andreas Pocha, DA
– Dr. Berthold Sch\u00e4fer, bbs
– Christine Buddenbohm ZDB, Bundesg\u00fctegemeinschaft Recycling-Baustoffe
– Sandra Giern BDE\/BRB<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"