Dem-Con obtains recycling rate certification from Recycling Certification Institute

Dem-Con Cos., Shakopee, Minnesota, has received Certification of Real Rates (CORR) from the Recycling Certification Institute (RCI), Sacramento, California. 

 

CORR is designed to ensure Dem-Con customers that its recycling rates have been verified by a certified third party and are real, verifiable and reasonable. RCI develops protocols specifying eligibility criteria and detailing steps to monitor and verify recovery and recycling rates achieved by specific recycling facilities. Dem-Con is now eligible to offer the new Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) pilot credit point available to LEED 2009 and LEED v4 projects for using a verified construction and demolition (C&D) recycling facility. 

 

“Being able to offer the additional point means a lot to our customers and adds value to any USGBC (U.S. Green Building Council) project,” states Jason Haus, CEO at Dem-Con. “Satisfying the certification requirements with RCI allows our customers to rely on our facility’s recycling rates. Transparency and reliability means a lot in our industry, and the 3rd party certification with RCI helps us achieve that.” 

 

Dem-Con says it is the only facility in the Twin Cities marketplace and one of four facilities in the United States to be certified and able to offer the additional LEED point. Dem-Con operates a residential single-stream materials recovery facility (MRF), a C&D MRF, a shingle processing yard, a wood processing facility and a landfill. The company was featured in the September/October 2014 issue of Construction & Demolition Recycling in the cover story “Forward thinkers” available by clicking here.

 

More information about RCI and its Certification of Real Rates (CORR) is available at www.recyclingcertification.org