Benefits of Recycling Concrete

There is a range of environmental and economic benefits in recycling concrete rather than dumping it or burying it in a landfill. These advantages include:

• Reduced tippage and related freight charges

• Cheaper source of aggregate than newly mined

• Reduction of landfill space required for concrete debris

• Using recycled material as gravel reduces the need for gravel mining

• Increasingly, high-grade aggregate for road construction is available only at greater distances, increasing the associated economic and environmental cost impacts associated with the longer haulage distances versus using recycled aggregate