ETL 1110-3-503
15 Sept 99
d. The various types of waste material can be divided according to the source into
four categories. These categories are agriculture, domestic, industrial, and mineral
(Collins and Ciesielski 1994 and Shelburne and DeGroot 1998). Agricultural and
mineral wastes are the major contributors to the overall volume of solid waste with
domestic and industrial wastes contributing almost an order of magnitude less (Decker
1994 and Shelburne and DeGroot 1998). The primary types of waste materials available
for construction are outlined below:
(1) Agricultural.
(a) Animal manure
(b) Crop wastes
(c) Lumber and wood
(2) Domestic
(a) Compost
(b) Glass and ceramics
(c) Incinerator ash
(d) Plastics
(e) Residual material from water treatment plants
(f) Sewage sludge
(g) Use motor oil
(h) Used tires
(i) Waste paper
(3) Industrial
(a) Baghouse fines
(b) Blast-furnace (iron) and steel slags
(c) Cement and lime kiln dusts
(d) Clean-burning ash material
(e) Coal ash by-products
(f) Construction and demolition debris
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