US: Wallboard recycler USA Gypsum has opened its US$3m wallboard recycling plant and corporate headquarters in the West Cocalico Township, Pennsylvania. The company said that the new buildings and equipment will produce better quality products more efficiently and will help USA Gypsum to divert even more wallboard waste from landfills.
The recycling plant also includes renovated buildings for packaging, storage and offices. In the past 10 years, USA Gypsum has diverted more than 225,000t of wallboard from landfills, converting it to beneficial use by farmers in the form of gypsum fertiliser, soil conditioners and amendments and gypsum animal bedding. In spite of this growth, USA Gypsum has estimated that less than 10% of wallboard scraps generated in Pennsylvania are recycled. USA Gypsum ships its gypsum products across the US and Canada.
