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MORE PERFORMANCE WITH LESS
DEVELOPING SOLUTIONS
TO MAXIMIZE THE USE
OF RESOURCES
PROVIDING SOLUTIONS TO DEVELOP
THE MODULARITY AND REVERSIBILITY
OF BUILDINGS
To increase the use of buildings and extend their life,
it is necessary to anticipate changes in functionality.
Saint-Gobain participates in the construction of the
Saint-Denis Olympic Village for the Olympic Games
of Paris 2024. A place of residence for the athletes,
it will be transformed into housing, offices or shops
at the end of the Games.
OFFERING WASTE MANAGEMENT
SERVICES FOR CUSTOMERS
Saint-Gobain Distribution Bâtiment France organized
the recovery of waste from the same types of
construction materials, products and equipment,
which are sold to professionals, thereby becoming
the first private network of collection points for
construction waste from civil engineering sites. In its
CSR roadmap, Saint-Gobain Distribution Bâtiment
France has included a pillar on construction waste
management. Various partnerships have been signed
with specialized companies or start-ups such as
Tri'n'collect in order to accelerate the recovery of
construction waste, and its sorting and recycling.
CREATING MATERIALS
RECYCLING CHANNELS
Worldwide and for most materials, Saint-Gobain
creates recycling channels which are adapted
to countries, markets and customers.
Examples include:
GLASS
Saint-Gobain developed a network in Europe,
Saint-Gobain Glass Recycling, to facilitate
the recycling of flat glass from deconstruction
or waste from the segment. This involves
qualifying independent companies capable of
collecting and dismantling glass products and
undertaking to promote recycling in floats, in a
closed loop, for end-of-life glazing. Some twenty
independent partners have already joined the
network for a treatment and recycling offering
for glazed products.
GLASS WOOL
In 2019, the Group launched its ILOOP project,
supported by the European Union via its LIFE finance
program. This project aims to contribute to the
gradual recovery of glass wool waste generated on
construction or demolition sites, which is currently
sent to landfill. It offers an innovative solution
for closed loop recycling, that can transform waste
into a high-quality secondary raw material that is
used to manufacture new glass wool.
GYPSUM
In 2017, Rigips Germany created RiCycling, a
recycling concept that consists of supplying raw
materials with recycled gypsum.
Today, a complete cycle of materials is carried out,
from the extraction of raw materials, through
production and installation, to deconstruction and
recycling. For example, the Gelsenkirchen-Scholven
plant is supplied with materials which are over 20%
recycled.
In the United States, CertainTeed Gypsum, in
collaboration with three partner companies in New
York, launched an initiative to recover plasterboard
waste at its Buchanan site in New York, and to reuse
it as raw materials for the manufacture of new
products.
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