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Pascuales
Waste

Second life for concrete ECUADOR

Opportunity Results Ready-mix
Advance toward the goal • Pascuales ready-mix
of “Zero Waste to Landfill” plant built raw material
by reducing the disposal storage walls using
of waste to landfills. leftover concrete saving
around 80,000 CHF
Solution by avoiding 235 m³ of
Give a second life to reinforced concrete
leftover concrete that • Each LEGO-style block
can not be processed saved around 50 CHF
by recycling machines • Another 380 blocks
by transforming it produced and used for
into structures for segregation within the Dolores Prado
area delimitation and ready mix site plant and CEO
segregation. other operations
• 2,110 tons of non-
Recycled returned hazardous waste
concrete: 600 tons/year diverted from landfills
in 2024

Elvira Tovar
Sustainability
Manager

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