CR&R Creates Large C&D Recycling Program

Southern California's largest construction recycling program formed between CR&R and Rancho Mission Viejo.

Ranch Mission Viejo, a lresidential home builder in Orange County, Calif., has partnered with CR&R to create Southern California's largest on-site construction recycling program.

The program is part of Rancho Mission Viejo's larger commitment to environmentally sensitive practices at Terramor, the largest green-oriented production-style residential village in the nation.

The mandatory on-site recycling program is a collaboration among Rancho Mission Viejo, master planner and developer of Ladera Ranch, CR&R, and Terramor's 10 neighborhood builders. A total of 1,260 homes are slated to be built in phases at Terramor. The goal of the on-site recycling program is to divert as much debris as possible from local landfills through a combination of "source separation" and "mixed processing" of debris generated during the homebuilding and community construction process.

Anne Marie Moiso, director of marketing for Rancho Mission Viejo, the average 2,000-square-foot home generates about 13 tons of waste. By placing bins for concrete, wood, metal and other debris at sites within each Terramor neighborhood in addition to managing and monitoring the program through CR&R, a total of 121.4 tons of material, roughly 70 percent of the total waste that would have previously been landfilled, has been recycled from Terramor homebuilding sites as of this past August.

In addition to participating in the mandatory construction waste recycling program, the builders of Terramor have agreed to meet and exceed statewide energy-efficiency requirements by at least 20 percent, reduce their use of non-renewable resources, and build with environmentally preferable materials.

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