Are such programs enough to ensure the supply of construction materials is sustainable? No, and if you look back at the examples of the past two centuries, industry-wide reuse of such materials should have been business as usual by now.
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As the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) pointed out in its 2007 report, Potential Earnings Impacts from Climate Change: Construction, the energy used in the manufacture of plaster products is amongst the lowest of any building product. This means that, apart from those associated with its natural gas consumption, the emissions from CSR Gyprock’s plasterboard manufacturing operations are limited to water vapour.
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