The City of Vancouver is a fully developed city with a population of over 500,000 and is currently undergoing significant urban renewal. The Vancouver Landfill is an important resource with limited capacity. Through the recycling initiatives of road construction materials, the capacity of this resource will be extended. Beginning in 2005, Vancouver made a significant move to reduce and reuse sewer, water, and road construction materials. Vancouver generates over 400,000 tonnes of excavated waste material from its sewer, water and road infrastructure projects. Through various crushing, screening, and blending projects over 100,000 tonnes of material have been used in the first full year of the project. This equates to a reuse of over 6,000 dump truck loads of material or equivalent to road base material for 46 lane km of roadway. This project was nominated for the 2005 TAC Environmental Achievement Award. For the covering abstract of the conference see ITRD number E211521.
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