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The Forever House: Recycling our plasterboard waste.
Plasterboard – including the trademarked product Gib – are the large sheets used to line walls, typically with white gypsum plaster sandwiched between two layers of heavy-duty paper.
It’s what builders and home renovators were going crazy for during last year’s post-lockdown building surge.
Look in a skip at the “gibbing” stage of a new build or home renovation, and It’s likely to be full of plasterboard. Around 12% of wall boards are estimated to be wasted at the point it is installed, with most offcuts heading straight to landfill.
In the anaerobic, oxygen-deprived conditions of landfills, plasterboard turns toxic. When wet or mixed with biodegradables such as food, plasterboards can produce up to a quarter of its weight of poisonous hydrogen sulphide.
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