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Demolishing homes after climate disasters can be devastating. Here’s how we reused precious materials
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Following the 2022 Northern Rivers floods in New South Wales, researchers piloted an alternative to traditional demolition that reuses flood-damaged materials instead of sending them to landfill, addressing waste management challenges in disaster recovery.
Demolishing homes after climate disasters can be devastating. Here’s how we reused precious materials
Elise Derwin
Following the devastating Northern Rivers floods in New South Wales in 2022, roughly 14,000 truckloads of water-damaged materials were sent to landfill.
The flood exposed many things, including our unimaginative approach to managing waste. As immediate recovery moved into reconstruction, we saw an opportunity to manage this flood-damaged material differently.
We proposed an alternative to traditional house demolition. It was piloted on two flood-damaged houses in Lismore, using a “
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