We’ve all seen a dumpster full of debris on a job site, but do you know anything about where that construction waste ends up? We generate about 570 million tons of construction waste every year... and that number is growing. Listen as This Old House Contractor Charlie Silva sorts through what we can reuse or recycle, the EPA’s Nicole Villamizar runs the numbers, and Professor Debbie Reinhart looks to smarter technology.
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Home in a Kit
Materials Around Us
Urban Resilience
“Plyscrapers”
Healthy Homes
The Perfect Tree?
Life On Mars?
Our Perpetual House Guests
The (Second) Rise of Concrete
The Post-Pandemic Home
Season 2: Premiering May 13, 2021
[Bonus] The Walk-In from America’s Test Kitchen
[Bonus] Introducing the Ask This Old House Podcast
Rebuilding Paradise: Holding onto Home
[Bonus] Proof from America’s Test Kitchen
Electricity: What’s Current and What’s Next?
Toilets: Humanity’s Greatest Invention?
Building Science: If These Walls Could Talk
Roofs: Coming Out On Top
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