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The circular economy could make demolition a thing of the past
Construction waste can be turned into valuable new materials.
Formula 1, often a laboratory for innovation, offers us a real-world example of this in the form of the Red Bull team’s “pit box”, known as the F1Holzhaus – literally, “the wooden house”. The Spanish PRISMA Project aims to manufacture high added value products, such as building blocks made from sawmill waste that would otherwise be burnt or shredded and turned into low-value chipboard. The fences that protect the public from stampeding bulls throughout the run’s 848 metre course are made from wild pine, sourced from the neighbouring Roncal Valley.
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