Gypsum’s New Online Home

The Construction Materials Recycling Association (CMRA) has helped launch an affiliated Web site, www.drywallrecycling.org, an online resource on how to recycle gypsum wallboard from the construction and demolition materials stream.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region Five funded the project, and the information was compiled by Dr. Timothy Townsend of the University of Florida.

The site includes information on gypsum drywall and how it can be processed for other markets after use as drywall. A list of literature on the subject and state contacts for gypsum recyclers is also available, in addition to a discussion on possible odor problems when the material is disposed of in landfills.

“Gypsum may be the most difficult material to recycle among all the C&D components,” says William Turley, CMRA’s executive director and associate publisher of Construction & Demolition Recycling magazine. “This Web page will provide the basic information on how to do it.”

The Web site is the second in the CMRA’s series of developing Internet resources on various C&D recycling commodities. The first, focusing on asphalt shingles, was www.shinglerecycling.org. CMRA plans to develop a Web site on concrete recycling in the near future.