As in many other cities, in San Francisco, building materials represent about half of all municipal solid waste generation and approximately a quarter of all disposal. Reuse is an obvious strategy to address generation reduction and disposal to landfill, and typically, associated with items rescued from existing buildings (i.e., salvage), but that is not the sole source.
Another feedstock for reuse is surplus, which is different from salvage because it is a product that has been purchased for construction but not installed. The Green Building and Zero Waste programs at the San Francisco Department of the Environment (SFE) initiated the Surplus Building Products Reduction and Redistribution Study to better understand situations that lead to surplus on construction sites, including building product types, quantities, and frequency, as well as ways to minimize and repurpose these items.
The study is intended to raise awareness about surplus among building industry practitioners working directly with building products. For this, the city has closely worked with the sector to understand challenges, and consequently also support finding solutions to achieve zero waste goals. Please join us and the team from San Francisco to learn about this process and the findings.
Session I
8 AM PST [see your local time here]
- Spanish interpretation available
Session II
4 PM PST [see your local time here]
The webinar will take place in English with interpretation to Spanish available in the first session. Please let us know if you would like to attend in a different language and we are happy to check options for additional interpretation.
Please also feel free to share this invitation with colleagues.
We look forward to seeing you there,
Tessa Devreese, Programme Officer, Clean Construction Programme
Kathrin Zeller, Senior Manager, Waste to Resources
