C&D News

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has awarded a solid waste grant of nearly $46,300 to Deschutes County to bolster a program that reuses construction and demolition material from home building through a building surplus resale program.

The Deschutes County grant will be directed to the Bend Area Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore Construction and Demolition Materials Salvage Program. Deschutes County and Habitat for Humanity are providing a match totaling nearly $74,000. The funds will allow ReStore, a building surplus store, to broaden the amount of recycled construction and home building materials it collects through material donations from area home builders.

ReStore collects the discarded construction and demolition materials and sells them at a discount to the public. It contributes profits to the construction of affordable housing through the Bend Area Habitat for Humanity.

Expansion of the program is expected to forge new partnerships with five of the area’s top builders, with a goal of diverting 60,000 linear feet of lumber from the Deschutes County Landfill each month.

Cherry Cos. has announced that Joseph Rizzo has been named director of business development. Cherry provides demolition, aggregate supply, stabilized product and road removal.

In his new role, Rizzo’s responsibilities include sales, public relations and marketing for Cherry corporate.

Rizzo served as the division manager for Cherry Concrete Removal, where he was responsible for the daily operations of the Trucking Division and Concrete Removal Division.

The city of San Jose, Calif., has teamed with Granite Construction Co., Watsonville, Calif., to place a test section of 500 tons of recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) on a section of street near the Watsonville City Hall.

The city is interested in using sustainable road building practices as part of its Green Vision, which is a strategy that addresses how environmental responsibility makes financial sense and stimulates economic opportunities.