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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Put simply (because it's late, and I've gotta pack for a conference), the wood, structural metals, cement, copper wiring, piping, glass, roof shingles, all of that can be recycled into new building material. Then you use that in combination with material from other houses to build more efficiently laid-out, environmentally-harmonic housing, and hold many more people in such a structure than 1 family per 2000 sq ft.
G'night, Gracie.
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Imagine the labor necessary to deconstruct the house in a manner that could be recycled, then the energy necessary to reform the parts not easily recycled, (like the wall board and shingles - they have to be reformed in order to make reuseable product), and then the additional labor to build the new high-density low sq. footage housing. (And if you want a high-rise building, you can't use most of the materials, anyway, as lumber can't support more that 3-4 stories at most.) And playing with bare housing insulation, rebuilding you power grid, your water grid, your sewer grid....