Sep 3, 2026 – 5.00amMartin O’Connell’s company ECORR was born from his belief that there had to be a better use for building materials that were routinely carted off projects as waste, while new materials were being quarried and transported back on to site.“The infrastructure sector remains constrained by a linear ‘take-make-dispose’ model, driving resource depletion, landfill dependency and rising embodied carbon,” O’Connell told The Australian Financial Review.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
How construction waste can be reused at scale
The infrastructure sector’s “take-make-dispose” model, which generates millions of tonnes of waste a year, could be a thing of the past thanks to this company.
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