Recycled materials / Green Building & Sustainable Home Renovation Information & Advice

...materials.  It includes a portland cement / concrete-free build and extensive use of innovative green building materials like hemp and hempcrete - (which to be clear, have absolutely nothing to do with the infamous BC bud from back in the day, but we simply couldn't resist being punny with the title... )  Interestingly...

...materials can be reclaimed or recycled. With these tips, you can reduce to a minimum the materials you send to the landfill and learn how to dispose of waste responsibly.   The best way to reduce waste is to plan ahead to keep it at a minimum; here are some suggestions on how you can do that: Design your house with re...

...materials that could be used again, but when buyers can’t find sellers, otherwise usable materials are being sent to a land fill. There is a growing amount of used building materials that can be found at online classified websites such as Craigslist and Kijiji, but finding what you are looking for can be very hit and m...

...recycled one way or another. Metal is highly polluting and energy-intensive to extract and manufacture, so once we have it we are best to put it to good use. When used to form a structure, the carbon footprint and embodied energy of metal is far worse than that of wood. From a green building materials standpoint, mater...

...materials. Find more about low carbon green home building in the Ecohome Green Building Guide and these related pages :  Learn all about green building design basics here Tips for how to stay on budget while building and renovating How deconstruction helps recycle materials from old homes Choosing building mate...

...materials go, it doesn't get much better than this. The end product is of superior quality, and you are essentially cleaning up rivers and saving forests at the same time. And from an historical point of view, there is a Canadian heritage that is being brought to the surface here. Making useful building materials from ...

...materials that can be singled out as causing more harm than good, many have pros and cons that need to be weighed, and there isn't always one 'right' product than stands above the others. As a wise frog once said, it's not easy being green. New and recycled building materials: Cost:  First of all you need to determine...