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Recycled Substrates: Plant Biomass And Plant Cover Correlation, Richard K. Sutton
Recycled Substrates: Plant Biomass And Plant Cover Correlation, Richard K. Sutton
Landscape Architecture Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity
Green roofs extend roof membrane life and reduce waste to landfills. However, green roof costs must be reduced if their benefits are to accrue more widely. Use of recycled materials may reduce costs and also keep those materials out of landfills. Some work has been done on use of local recycled materials for green roof substrates, but none describe the characteristics, proportions and results of using an entire suite of blended recycled materials in admixtures (i.e., mixtures of very different materials) such as crumb rubber (CR), crushed used brick (CB) and compost (CPT) in concert with greens grade sand (#10), …