What should we do with the 250 million tonnes of waste generated by the building sector each year in our country? In Paris, a young company collects construction site toilets, refurbishes them and resells them. Its customers are large companies and authorized distributors. Helder de Oliveira is director of the Île-de-France Regional Waste Observatory.
Helder de Oliveira: Half of the waste, in general, is excavated earth which comes from infrastructure projects or the digging of parking lots. We will have 20% of concrete waste and then a little less than 7% of more usual waste like toilets in the report.
Helder de Oliveira: In reuse, we take an object, clean it, recondition it and resell it as is, whereas, for recycling, we destroy the object to recover the material.
All parts of the toilet are immersed in an acid bath to clean the ceramic
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Helder de Oliveira: Yes, we save money. When you throw something away, it’s like an iceberg, you see what you throw away but underneath, you don’t see all the resources that were used to make it: energy, water, gas. greenhouse effect, etc. By using the items as is, you save all that.
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