Urbanite is just a catchy name for demolished concrete.
Urbanite concrete wall.
For example one might make a raised bed out of the concrete or a retaining wall.
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While using urbanite for a project requires extra human effort it keeps waste concrete from filling up landfills and requires little or no production energy.
We found a company that uses recycled concrete in their wall projects.
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Stone requires mining and often has to be transported great distances.
It is the largest such retaining wall that i have seen.
Concrete is an energy hog.
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When homeowners or builders tear out driveways sidewalks or concrete pads they first have to break the concrete into pieces and haul it out.
Native plantings line this new urbanite path leading to a custom stone patio with a recycled concrete bench.
They can take any material and make some great looking hardscapes for your home or gar.
Since concrete has one consistently flat side it works well as a replacement for paving stones.
Urbanite is a term that refers to broken pieces of unwanted concrete leftover from a demolition project.
This a a 50 year old retaining wall built by the original and now deceased owner of this property.
Reuse and repurpose plentiful broken concrete headed to the landfill by making an easy inexpensive broken concrete patio when used this way broken concrete is referred to as urbanite and it s a great way to make a useful and nice looking addition to your landscape on the cheap.
A new wood gate offers privacy and openness to the narrow but airy side garden.
These pieces are then used for other things.
This wasn t the type of stuff you used in your wall but urbanite that had been cracked and fractured into something more like large stones.
Urbanite is slab concrete that has been broken up on purpose or not into manageable pieces.
Urbanite replaces our need for stone or new concrete blocks the primary materials used for landscape walls.
My introduction to urbanite was in a backyard project building a brick oven grill.