Byproducts movement grows inside, outside U.S.(United States)(Wayne Nastri)

Waste News, December, 2006

Byline: Joe Truini

The need to reduce raw material consumption has never been greater, but neither has the opportunity to do so.

Each year, U.S. industries generate 464 million tons of coal ash, foundry sand and construction and demolition debris, nearly twice the amount of municipal solid waste, said Wayne Nastri, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Region 9 office during the 2006 Byproducts Beneficial Use Summit held Nov. 29-30 in San Francisco. The summit is organized by the U.S. EPA and Waste News.

The majority of that material ends up in landfills across the country, and there is a need to find opportunities to convert those waste streams to marketable commodities, he said.

"Clearly in this time...

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