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♻️ Zero-Waste Construction: Material Flow Accounting Lab

A 3D material-flow diagram of a construction site showing how diverting waste to reuse and recycling — instead of landfill — cuts truck trips, logistics emissions, and embodied carbon.

Materials Science3DAdvanced60 FPS

An animated 3D material-flow diagram of a construction site: particle streams carry tonnes of material out to reuse, recycling, or landfill, with truck traffic and carbon accounting responding live to the diversion strategy you choose.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

How raising the landfill-diversion rate, and shifting the mix toward reuse over recycling, shrinks the landfill-bound stream, cuts avoidable truck trips, and increases embodied carbon saved per day.

🎮 How to Use

Set site throughput, the diversion rate, the reuse/recycle mix, and the haul distance to landfill. Watch stream thickness, mound/silo size, and truck traffic respond, and read the live tonnage and carbon stats.

💡 Did You Know?

Reuse typically saves far more embodied carbon per tonne than recycling, because recycling still consumes energy to collect, process, and remanufacture material — reuse skips that step entirely.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D material-flow diagram of a construction site showing how diverting waste to reuse and recycling — instead of landfill — cuts truck trips, logistics emissions, and embodied carbon.

constructionwaste managementsustainabilitymaterial flowlifecycle assessmentembodied carbonThree.js

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install