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Comenius 2000 Man and Nature – Recycling |
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Country: DE |
Town : Ramstein-Miesenbach | ||
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Common sites Communication National sites Communication Art project: "Making things Recycling stations Recycled songs Clean-up activity |
Building material recycling: German English Back Building
material recycling Three
million metric tons of rubble have been recycled Three
million metric tons of rubble have been crushed with a crusher machine in the
excavation project for recycling. The
machine is specially designed to handle concrete and bulky rocks. While the
steel, flat jaw crushers crush difficult rocks and concrete pieces to grit, the
whole mechanism vibrates. Afterwards the chopped up pieces are taken on a
conveyer belt to the next treatment step, the firm mill, and are ground by
enormous rotors which they smash to useful grit.
The building material-recycling-arrangement in X 60 accepts debris and
soil from the whole BASF-ground in Ludwigshafen. The jaw crushers are kept busy,
as there are plenty of supplies. This year became the magic three million-ton
mark in delivered rubble material and almost as many metric tons (barrels) of
reusable materials are produced to be used once again. The materials that were once before expensive to store in the dump are
today almost always recycled. The crushed stones for example are used for many purposes on the BASF
area. Depending upon the size and type of stones they can be used for filler
material for excavations and ditches or as a base material for the road and
track construction for the factory area. Samples of the material are
tested to guarantee that nothing is contaminated and can without a doubt be used
again. “Because everything on
the Ludwigshafener BASF area can be recycled as building material, it makes an
important contribution for the lowering of the costs“ says Uwe Schonfelder,
DWY/NC. This is an advantage of the integrated location in Ludwigshafen, because in the end result it helps quite enormously: The dump costs have been omitted, expensive crushed stone does not have to be bought, the building material recycling system is working at full capacity, and additionally is cheaper than the outside competition. (Source: Werkszeitung BASF, Dez. 2000) Translation: Stephanie Würkner, 8f
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