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Originally Posted by nekokami
I saw a lot of buildings being demolished in China when I was there 8 years ago-- brick by brick, with the bricks being saved. I think it might depend what materials we're talking about when trying to determine their recycle value. And I don't recall anyone wanting to rebuild with the same materials on the same site, but maybe I missed that part.
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No surprise. While China is industrializing as fast as possible (with all the attendant problems that brings), it is still a developing country with an enormous land area, huge population, and low standard of living for many millions.
When you have a huge labor force for whom dollars a day might be a good wage, you can do things like take buildings apart, brick by brick, and save the bricks for reuse. The closest source of new bricks might be quite some distance away, and it may actually be more economical to reuse existing ones in construction relatively nearby.
It wouldn't work here because the economics are different.
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I grew up in a suburb/rural setting, and thought that was the kind of house I would want to live in as an adult. But I live in a house like that now, and I still have noisy neighbors (it's amazing how far bass tones carry, even through woods)
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I had a friend many years ago who shared a house with a friend of his, and half a mile between them and their nearest neighbors.
Just as well. Before moving to the east coast, Glen had lived in Chigago, where his family owned a manufacturing business. He had his own apartment in the family home, rent free, and managed a stereo store. He made good money, and had little to do with it but buy stereo gear, which moved east with him. Crown pre-amp, Phase Linear amp, Nakamichi tape deck, Thorens transcription turntable, Klipschhorn speakers... turn the volume knob to 3, and plaster would start rattling off the walls, with bass like a physical punch in the chest. But you didn't realize how loud it really was because the reproduction quality was so good. He once blew another friend's speaker trying to get the sound he was accustomed to at home, but the speaker blew before he could get it that loud. As he put it "I've got Klipsch adjusted ears!"
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Dennis