![Through recycling, nothing goes to waste at Ponce City Market project
Interesting article today about the plan to recycle or reuse pieces of the former City Hall East building as it gets transformed into the mixed-use, Beltline-connected development called Ponce City Market.
A quote from the article:
…the developer already has crews working to resuscitate its 2 million square feet with the goal of reusing or recycling all of its parts, even to the point of turning an internal railway into a linear park 30 feet above the ground.
The recycle/reuse effort is all the more impressive in light of the fact that goofy-ass Georgia laws make it cheaper to put the waste in a landfill rather than recycle it.
Georgia laws discourage recycling of construction debris because fees at landfills are relatively low…If the tipping fees [what landfill operators charge those dumping garbage] were higher here, people would be prone to recycle more because it would be less expensive to recycle than to throw it in the landfill.
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1926 photo of the building taken from the PCM Facebook page](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly6f1qnVQO1qc63pwo1_1280.jpg)
Through recycling, nothing goes to waste at Ponce City Market project
Interesting article today about the plan to recycle or reuse pieces of the former City Hall East building as it gets transformed into the mixed-use, Beltline-connected development called Ponce City Market.
A quote from the article:
…the developer already has crews working to resuscitate its 2 million square feet with the goal of reusing or recycling all of its parts, even to the point of turning an internal railway into a linear park 30 feet above the ground.
The recycle/reuse effort is all the more impressive in light of the fact that goofy-ass Georgia laws make it cheaper to put the waste in a landfill rather than recycle it.
Georgia laws discourage recycling of construction debris because fees at landfills are relatively low…If the tipping fees [what landfill operators charge those dumping garbage] were higher here, people would be prone to recycle more because it would be less expensive to recycle than to throw it in the landfill.
1926 photo of the building taken from the PCM Facebook page
