A French company specialising in recycling rubble for building materials has teamed up with the Ukrainian military and Ukrainian organisations to build new apartment blocks from the remains of bombed ones.
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… Neo-Eco, says its techniques can recycle up to 98% of the debris in Hostomel…
Global Construction Review writes:
Funded initially by France, they aim to build some 450 new apartments with materials recovered from destroyed buildings in the town of Hostomel by 2024. A suburb of Kyiv, Hostomel was bombarded at the beginning of Russia’s invasion in February 2022.
The company, Neo-Eco, says its techniques can recycle up to 98% of the debris in Hostomel. Among other things, it can turn concrete and bricks into aggregate, wooden doors into particle board, and plaster into plasterboard…
€30m target
In September 2022, it signed a memorandum with the Kyiv Regional Military Administration to carry out the pilot scheme.
The French government is funding the initial phase, but additional donors are necessary for a targeted €30m.
Also involved in the pilot is Ukraine Resilience, a charity promoting reconstruction in the country using circular economy techniques…
Cities of rubble
Hostomel has about 50,000 tons of rubble caused by the Russian bombardment, Bart Gruyaert, the vice-president of Neo-Eco, told Fast Company last month…
