A Vancouver Island non-profit has launched a program called Building Material Exchange (BMEx) to connect construction companies and encourage the recycling of building waste. BMEx aims to create a marketplace where companies can list and exchange excess or salvaged construction materials, keeping them out of landfills.
COBBLE HILL, B.C. — Gil Yaron barely contains his excitement when asked to describe his non-profit venture to convince construction companies, developers and renovation contractors to recycle tonnes of building material waste on Vancouver Island.
The launch in November of the Building Material Exchange, abbreviated to BMEx, aims at getting the word out to the construction and development community that their project leftovers have value, said Yaron, the managing director of circulation innovation at Light House, the Vancouver-based non-profit behind the exchange.
"We want to create a formal program that makes it easy for companies to exchange these materials," he said."Right now, materials are increasing in costs and the less efficient you are, the more you are spending on materials, and tipping fees at landfills are also going up, so the higher your waste management costs are going to be on projects.
Total greenhouse gas emissions from a 2,000-square-foot Nexus home amounts to about 0.59 tonne, while for a traditional home build of the same size produces 7.80 tonnes of GHGs, he said. "There's so much potential for that symbiotic relationship between companies," Topp said."One company can be both a supplier and a receiver of materials."The BMEx project has the backing of Habitat for Humanity, said Jeff Krafta, the global non-profit housing organization's mid-Island executive director in Nanaimo, about 110 kilometres north of Victoria.
Habitat for Humanity is still working on details that will allow the non-profit to issue tax receipts to companies for the construction waste, he said.
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