According to Statistics Norway, an average of approximately 1100 detached houses have been demolished each year in Norway over the course of the past decade. However, only 7 per cent of the wood from these buildings was recycled.
According to Statistics Norway, an average of approximately 1100 detached houses have been demolished each year in Norway over the course of the past decade. However, only 7 per cent of the wood from these buildings was recycled.
Georgios Triantafyllidis, a PhD research fellow at NTNU in Gjøvik, believes a lot more could be recycled.
“Currently, the construction sector consumes a lot of raw materials and also generates large amounts of waste. This not only makes the industry a major consumer of new natural resources, but also one of the largest sources of global CO₂ emissions,” explained the researcher.
Read more at: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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