Green credits would help recycling efforts

Part 2: Double standards hamper green building

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(This is Part 2 of a two-part series. Read Part 1, "Salvaged fixtures often conflict with city codes.")

Last time we looked at a number of modern building-code requirements that make it either economically impractical or else flat-out illegal for green builders to use recycled building materials, even though the cities enforcing these codes officially encourage such reuse.

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