Green Building Materials and Waste Reduction

Green Building Materials

The Life-cycle Building Challenge is a competition soliciting projects, designs and ideas that facilitate building dis-assembly and material reuse to minimize waste, energy consumption, and associated greenhouse gas emissions.

Environmentally Preferable Building Materials and Specifications

• EPA's Industrial Materials Recycling Program provides information on how industrial materials, such as coal combustion products, foundry sand, and construction and demolition debris, can be recycled to meet the material needs of our construction industry.

• EPA's Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program aims to make the environment a factor in federal purchasing of all kinds of products, including building products.

• EPA's Database of Environmental Information on Products includes product-specific information (e.g., environmental standards and guidelines or contract language) developed by government programs, both domestic and international, as well as third parties.

• EPA and our partners, the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive and the multistage-sponsored Whole Building Design Guide, are developing the Federal Green Construction Guide for Specifies to help agencies meet various mandates as established by statutes and Executive Orders, as well as EPA and DOE program recommendations.

Waste Reduction

• EPA's Office of Solid Waste supports projects to reduce, reuse, and recycle waste generated from building construction, renovation, deconstruction, and demolition.

Green Building Waste Reduction

• EPA's Greens-capes program provides cost-efficient and environmentally friendly solutions for large-scale landscaping that are designed to help preserve natural resources and prevent waste and pollution.

• EPA's Industrial Materials Recycling Program provides information on how industrial materials, such as coal combustion products, foundry sand, and construction and demolition debris, can be recycled to meet the material needs of our construction industry.

See Also :

Components of Green Building

The Cost of Green Buildings