How to Use Recycled Concrete for a Low-Maintenance Landscape
Using recycled concrete in your landscape design is a smart, eco-conscious choice that offers unique aesthetics, durability, and reduced maintenance. This sustainable approach repurposes materials that might otherwise end up in landfills, giving them new life in your...
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How To Use Recycled Concrete in New Construction
Recycled concrete is essential when building a new foundation. Before the foundation itself is laid, there’s a few things that need to happen. For one, the ground must be levelled and compacted. Slab fill or crusher dust, made from recycled concrete, is one of the best ways to create the under slab for your foundation. If you’re constructing a new gravel driveway, choosing recycled crushed concrete over newly produced gravel is the way to go. Recycled concrete is also far cheaper than gravel.
Three Advantages Of Using Recycled Concrete
There are three key advantages of using recycled concrete, rather than virgin concrete. These are affordability, sustainability and product quality. Recycled concrete is cheaper than virgin aggregate. This is because recycled concrete has a much more efficient process, and costs far less to produce.
It also spares new aggregates from being mined, and old concrete from going to landfill. If you choose a reputable concrete recycling business, the product quality of recycled concrete is always going to be equal to (if not higher than) that of virgin aggregates.
Five Creative Ways To Use Recycled Concrete In Landscaping
There’s nothing like good landscaping. But what about the foundations upon which landscaping is based? There’s basically zero recognition for the building blocks of good landscaping, even though the foundation is what makes it possible. That’s why, today, we’re giving credit where credits due. Here are five top ways to use recycled concrete in landscaping, and why it’s an essential part of any impressive landscaping job.