What are the 5 strategies to conserve materials?
- Reuse existing buildings and salvaged materials
- Plan for smaller, more compact communities
- Design smaller, more flexible homes and buildings
- Use efficient framing techniques
- Promote source reduction in operations
What is rapidly renewable fiber or animal materials?
Grown and raised in 10 years or less and meet the Sustainable Agriculture Standard
Pre-consumer vs post-consumer recycle contents:
Pre-consumer recycled left over of the manufacturing process
Post consumer recycles has been used until the end of the useful life
What is local materials?
Materials extracted, processed, and manufactured within 100 miles of the site project location
What is the standard for materials having post-consumer/pre-consumer recycled contents?
ISO 14021-1999 Environmental Label and Declarations
What does FSC wood require?
Chain-of-custody documentation, tracking a product from harvest/extraction to the installation location, including processing, manufacturing, and distribution
What are the 8 environmentally preferable attributes of materials and products?
- Support local economy
- Sustainably grown and harvested
- Have intended end-of-life scenarios that avoid landfill
- Contain recycled content from industrial or consumer resources
- Made Of bio-based materials
- Free of toxins
- Long lasting, durable and reusable
- Made in factories that support human health and workers’ rights
What is Greenwashing?
Stating that a product is more sustainable than the reality
What are the 4 strategies to promote sustainable purchasing during design and operations?
- Identify local sources of environmentally preferable products
- Develop a sustainable materials policy
- Specify green materials and equipment
- Specify green custodial products
What types of products are required to be included in credit compliance documentation?
All permanently installed building materials and products, excluding elevators, escalators, fire suppression system
EPA statistic for current recycling rate
32%
4 preferred strategies for reducing waste landfills, as defined by EPA
Source reduction, reuse, recycling, waste to energu
Minimum types of items to be recycled to meet LEED MR prerequisites:
Paper Corrugated cardboard Metal Glass Plastic
How is waste calculated?
Volume or weight (tons)
3 strategies to reduce wastes during construction:
- Design buildings that produce less waste
- Develop a construction waste management policy
- Establish a tracking system
6 Strategies to reduce waste during operations and maintenance
- Develop a solid waste management policy
- Conduct a waste stream audit
- Maintain a recycling program
- Monitor, track, and report
- Compost
- Provide recycling for durable goods
What are the 3 components to address in MR category?
- Conservation of materials
- Environmentally, socially, and locally preferable materials
- Waste management and reduction
