Beneficial reuse of industrial byproducts has important benefits for the environment.

• Beneficial reuse projects preserve precious land fill space that would be otherwise consumed through normal disposal of reusable industrial byproducts.
• By reusing industrial byproducts, we reduce demand for virgin materials and preserve natural resources. We reduce the need for additional quarries and soil borrow pits that increasingly blight the landscape.
• Reuse projects can also conserve energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by decreasing the need for energy intensive manufacture of new products or extraction of new materials to fulfill the same end uses.
• A local reuse project also reduces the energy consumed and greenhouse gases emitted from long distance transportation of newly manufactured or extracted materials.
Regulators at every level are recognizing these advantages for the environment and are encouraging expanded beneficial reuse.

Links to info on beneficial reuse: DNR - Beneficial Use of Industrial Byproducts American Coal Ash Association First - Foundry Industry Recycling Starts Today