Construction & Demolition Recycling

The practice of recycling old and unwanted materials has been around for a long time, almost as long as people have existed. The Recycling Today Media Group (RTMG) may not have been around that long, but our dedication to the recycling sector began in 1963 with the launch of Recycling Today, originally known as Secondary Raw Materials magazine. Since then, we have expanded our offerings from a single trade magazine to a wide range of publications and resources that support the industry.

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Circular Services awarded contract in NC

1 week ago | cdrecycler.com | Brian Taylor

Circular Services, an operator of material recovery facilities (MRFs) that is part of New York-based Closed Loop Partners, says it has been selected by Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, to serve as that jurisdiction’s “recycling processing and operations partner.” As part of a five-year agreement with two one-year extensions, Circular Services will take over operations this month at an existing 48,500-square-foot Pence Road MRF in Charlotte, North Carolina (the largest city in Mecklenburg...
NDA Florida Chapter to host July event

1 week ago | cdrecycler.com | Brian Taylor

The Florida Chapter of the National Demolition Association (NDA) has announced it will host a meeting on Thursday, July 17, that also will serve as a fundraiser for the NDA Charitable Foundation (NDACF). The state chapter has invited members and prospective members to the meeting taking place at the Tampa, Florida, location of restaurant American Social.
Volvo to invest in PA facility

2 weeks ago | cdrecycler.com | Brian Taylor

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) says it intends to invest at least $40 million at its existing manufacturing complex in its headquarters city of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, so it can begin producing crawler excavators and large wheel loaders. The company, part of the Sweden-based Volvo Group, calls the Shippensburg project part of a total global investment of $261 million designed to increase its crawler excavator capacity at three sites, with the others being in South Korea and Sweden.
AI detects contaminated wood waste with 91 percent accuracy

3 weeks ago | cdrecycler.com | Haley Rischar

A new artificial intelligence (AI) system that can automatically identify contaminated construction and demolition wood waste has been developed by researchers from Monash University and Charles Darwin University (CDU). Published in Resources, Conservation & Recycling, researchers say the study presents the first real-world image dataset of contaminated wood waste—a major step toward smarter recycling and sustainable construction.
Case adds to excavator line

3 weeks ago | cdrecycler.com | Brian Taylor

Racine, Wisconsin–based Case Construction Equipment has announced the launch of its sizable new CX380E tracked excavator.
Heidelberg acquires Canadian concrete recycling firm

3 weeks ago | cdrecycler.com | Brian Taylor

Irving, Texas-based Heidelberg Materials North America has announced today it has acquired “certain assets” of Concrete Crushers Inc. (CCI), a concrete recycling firm based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The transaction includes a recycled aggregates yard in the city of Calgary and a contract crushing business with four mobile plants, according to Heidelberg.
Hanover Co. sets up fund to buy vacant buildings

1 month ago | cdrecycler.com | Brian Taylor

Houston-based real estate development and property management firm Hanover Co. says it has closed its Hanover Opportunities Fund (HOF) at $125 million in capital commitments and already has started acquiring land and underutilized commercial properties—such as vacant and distressed office buildings and—for redevelopment into multifamily or industrial projects.
Kadant equipment sales include wood recycling aspects

1 month ago | cdrecycler.com | Brian Taylor

Westford, Massachusetts-based Kadant Inc. says it has received orders with a combined value of $18 million from three lumber producers in North America and Europe this month. The equipment and technologies to be supplied will be used to debark, strand, chip and batch feed whole logs and scrap wood or lumber to produce oriented strand board (OSB) and dimensional lumber.
Tomra X-Tract model targets wood sorting

1 month ago | cdrecycler.com | Brian Taylor

The Tomra Recycling business unit of Norway-based Tomra ASA says the latest generation of its X-Tract sorting device has harnessed the power of X-ray transmission (XRT) technology based on identifying atomic density to detect and separate recyclable wood from impurities, including inert materials (rocks and concrete), metals, rigid plastic and glass.
Architectural billings remain subdued

1 month ago | cdrecycler.com | Brian Taylor

The Architecture Billings Index (ABI) organized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and Virginia-based information services firm Deltek declined to 43.2 based on April 2025 survey results. According to the Washington-based AIA, billings have declined for 28 of the last 31 months, maintaining a trend into negative territory “following the post-pandemic boom.” As the index in calculated, any score under 50 indicates architectural firm billings are lower than they were the previous month.