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What to do with scrap sheetrock

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marvin

12-22-2000 06:03:09




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Does anyone have a ecologically sound way of disposing of scraps of sheetrock (wallboard, drywall, or whatever its called in your area)? So far the best I've come up with is to scatter it around the driveway. Eventually it disappears, probably the paper dissolves and the gypsum washes away. Since gypsum is calcium sulfate, would it be good for the garden?




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Jim WI

12-29-2000 10:31:48




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 Re: what to do with scrap sheetrock in reply to marvin, 12-22-2000 06:03:09  
Not long ago, one of the home shows (maybe This Old House or Hometime?) showed someone who's in the business of cleaning up construction sites. The wallboard went into a grinder and was used as a soil amendment. Wood (non-pressure-treated) was chipped and used for mulch.

Don't see any reason you can't do the same.



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Irv

12-22-2000 16:32:56




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 Re: what to do with scrap sheetrock in reply to marvin, 12-22-2000 06:03:09  
I have used it in my garden for years. Let it sit out over the winter and you can break it up easy.



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Old Sarge

12-22-2000 13:22:37




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 Re: what to do with scrap sheetrock in reply to marvin, 12-22-2000 06:03:09  
Years ago I used to haul Agricultural Gypsum out of Gerlach Nevada to Duckwater Nevada./ Incidentally Agricultural Gypsum is just low grade stuff that wasn't good enough to make sheet rock out of. There was an old farm boy who had moved up there from Texas and bought 4 sections of land, mostly Texas Hardpan. He spread this on his fields to break up the clay. It raised the Ph and he planted alfalfa, and within two years the Japenese were in there building a cube mill.Drilled more wells and was doing a thriving business last I heard.

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bbott

12-22-2000 11:47:20




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 Re: what to do with scrap sheetrock in reply to marvin, 12-22-2000 06:03:09  
Around here there's a guy who got an
environmental grant to start a recycling company... he collects sheetrock scraps and grinds it up.. he then sells it as soil amendment...

If those folks approve of it, I don't think
it's gonna do any harm.

bb



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Matt

12-22-2000 09:39:43




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 Re: what to do with scrap sheetrock in reply to marvin, 12-22-2000 06:03:09  
Sounds like the right way to handle the stuff. I'm in the environmental field, and many times I have "disposed" of materials in this way. (i.e.,waste iron powder, really greens up a lawn.) The sheetrock will do no harm, and might be helpful in adjusting pH of some soils. If your garden is acidic, this would be better than paying someone to haul the drywall scraps away, and paying the same guy to haul in lime. Any time you can find a safe way to dispose of materials, in a useful way without filling up our landfills, you are doing the right thing.

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Franz

12-22-2000 09:06:59




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 Re: what to do with scrap sheetrock in reply to marvin, 12-22-2000 06:03:09  
Lets see, they will mine it out of the earth for another few days not far from here, then the miners will be out of work, thanks to the Great White Father in Washington. After they dug it, they crushed it and added water to make sheet rock. Seems to me if it came from the earth, you can return it the same place.



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Franz

12-22-2000 09:06:24




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 Re: what to do with scrap sheetrock in reply to marvin, 12-22-2000 06:03:09  
Lets see, they will mine it out of the earth for another few days not far from here, then the miners will be out of work, thanks to the Great White Father in Washington. After they dug it, they crushed it and added water to make sheet rock. Seems to me if it came from the earth, you can return it the same place.



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F14

12-22-2000 07:59:16




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 Re: what to do with scrap sheetrock in reply to marvin, 12-22-2000 06:03:09  
I don't know of any ecological hazards associated with the stuff. I routinely use it for rough fill, and have had nice grass come up after it crumbles and I cover it with a bit of topsoil.



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