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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Imagine the labor necessary...
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Yes, there can be additional labor involved. On the other hand, the labor and real (IOW environmental as well as economic) expense of milling or mining new materials and shipping them to your site can often equal or surpass the costs of recycling locally. And you have the added benefit of NOT milling or mining new materials.
Now, imagine the real cost of just letting those homes, and all that useful material, just rot away, forcing you to rebuild from new materials... you've just doubled (at least) the cost of building a home, because you did not recycle the old material, essentially throwing it away.