Coal Ash is Everywhere
Coal Combustion Wastes in Our Lives
See industry coal combustion waste use chart showing quantities of waste being used.
Consumer Products and Home Uses:- Kitchen counter tops
- Cosmetics
- Toothpaste
- Utensils and Tool Handles
- Picture frames
- Carpet Backing
- Dog houses
- Auto Bodies & Boat Hulls
- Driveways
- Running Tracks
- Bowling Balls
- Flotation Devices
- Raw feed for cement clinker (in kiln)
- Cement replacement (in concrete)
- Roofing granules
- Carpet backing
- Binding agent
- Flooring & ceiling tile
- Flowable fill
- Asphalt roads
- Slate-like roof tiles
- Wood-like decking
- Structural insulated housing panels
- House siding & trim
- Fireplace mantles
- Aggregate
- Soil modification & stabilization
- Grout
- Stucco
- Cinder block
- Roofing shingles
- Paints & undercoatings
- Ceiling Tile
- Road base/Sub-base
- Blasting Grit
- Recycled plastic lumber
- Utility poles & crossarms
- Railway sleepers
- Highway sound barriers
- Drywall
- Roofing tiles & panels
- Marine pilings
- Doors
- Scaffolding, non-catastrophic failure
- Window frames
- Sign posts
- Crypts
- Architectural interiors & exteriors
- Columns
- Rail road ties
- Bricks
- PVC Pipe
- Vinyl flooring
- Paving stones
- Paints & plastics filler
- Shower Stalls
- Garage doors
- Park benches
- Landscape timbers
- Planters
- Pallet blocks
- Molding
- Mail boxes
- Artificial Reef
- Soil amendment & fertilizer
- Dairy feedlot pads
- Cattle Feeders
- Agricultural stakes
- Soil stabilization - stock feed yards
- Recycled drywall soil amendment
- Dumping on rivers to melt ice
- Land contour & golf course fill
- Structural fills & embankments
- Mining applications/minefill
- Snow & ice traction on roads and parking lots