Above, one of three mounds at the Seneca Meadows Landfill in Waterloo, NY, as seen from the west side of Seneca Lake approximately eight miles away (through a telephoto lens). Credit: Kevin Colton, HWS.

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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

A Use For Abandoned Houses Part 1


We see them all the time. Driving along any road, we always seem to find burnt down, damaged, or just abandoned houses. If we let these houses sit, unattended, we are guilty of wasting resources. A house takes a lot of materials to be built. Minus a lack of any carpentry skills, I assume that a house takes wood, metal (screws, nails, pipes, etc.) sheet rock, and/or brick. In addition to all of these materials, there was some serious labor put into building a house. These houses are still prime reserves of resources. We can still extract the materials that went into building these houses. Additionally, we can use labor hours in the deconstruction of these houses. If only there was a company that took apart buildings in an environmentally responsible way, so that the materials could be resold and reused...

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