Workers for Atomic Recycling hand-sort small pieces of concrete at the facility in north Minneapolis. (STAFF PHOTO: Bill Klotz) Of all the materials processed by recyclers for reuse in new products, ...

Concrete is a long--lasting material, but roads, buildings and other concrete structures can exhaust their usefulness. When these structures are demolished, the debris can get a new life through ...

Heidelberg Materials, a German multinational building materials company, has opened a recycling plant for selective separation and sorting of demolition concrete in Katowice, Poland. The plant will ...

A conceptual robot makes it possible to intelligently deconstruct a building, without any of the fuss or mess. There’s too much concrete in the world to accurately quantify it, though estimates put ...

Concrete and asphalt are used to build structures and roads which are engineered to last for decades. Unfortunately, even these materials eventually erode and fall into disrepair. Once these materials ...