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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
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.
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And, wouldn't the influx of new jobs be a boon to the economy?? At least here in the US where the economy is rather sucky??
I must say that the eco-friendly house that is being built down the road from me looks rather interesting. It looks like it's being built out of recycled metal and styrofoam .... I mean that seriously.
It will be interesting to compare heating and cooling bills with them when they finish and move in.