Construction and Demolition Recycling, Inc.

Construction and Demolition Recycling is the only C&D Facility in California that is concentrating solely on tenant improvement demolition debris; we had no choice but to take a leadership role because there was a vacuum that needs to be filled. Too many materials are being sent to landfills because they are not the low-hanging fruit that traditional C&D Facilities harvest. It became our goal to lead by example and show that the diversion of tenant improvement demolition debris could be done as efficiently and cost effectively as the debris from more traditionally recognized demolition debris. CDR has become the first and so far only recycling facility in Southern California that has earned 3rd Party Diversion Certification from The Recycling Certification Institute, making CDR the only facility in Southern California that is eligible to provide the US Green Building Council LEED Pilot Point for facilities with 3rd party verification.

RECYCLING IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE

What we do at our facility is not a secret recipe kept under lock and key. The advantage that we have at Construction and Demolition Recycling is the fact that we didn't start out to be recyclers. We grew from an interior demolition contractor into what we have become today.

Being fairly new to the industry, we had none of the preconceived notions that hampered other recyclers who had been in business for years. We used the analogy of the bumblebee - According to aerodynamic principles; the wings of the bumblebee are not big enough to support the mass of the bee's body. Since no one bothered to tell the bee, the bee just keeps flying.

Similarly, the staff of Construction and Demolition Recycling jumped into the recycling world with completely open minds. Nobody had ever told us that we could not recycle most of the materials that are generally accepted as trash, so we looked for places to recycle them. The drywall, carpet, and ceiling tile that we recover has long been regarded by many to be residual debris with no commercial or reuse value, and that accepted notion has limited the amount of time and energy that companies put into finding markets for these materials. Because we had no preconceptions about what could and could not be recycled, we looked for outlets, and eventually found them.