This guide provides good practice advice to maximise recovery rates for plasterboard waste from construction and demolition (C&D) sites. The guidelines cover the sorting of plasterboard, processing of plasterboard into crushed gypsum and paper and the storage of the raw and processed product at a dedicated or centralised facility.
The aim is to assist operators of mobile and centralised crushing facilities to adopt practices that:
- maximise operational efficiency and the amount of plasterboard sorted from the landfill or cleanfill
- minimise contamination and damage of the processed product
- avoid or minimise environmental and nuisance effects from processing.
This guide covers:
- finding good markets for crushed plasterboard
- on-site versus centralised processing
- setting up a processing facility
- operating a plasterboard recycling plant
- testing and storage of crushed plasterboard
- environmental, health and safety hurdles
- resources and contacts
- other guides in this series