Title : Waste minimization, re-use and recycling potentials associated with construction waste materials.
Abstract:
The execution of construction activities is intimately linked to the deployment of different materials in different states of matter to sites. Their usage is instrumental to the overall delivery of buildings, roads and other infrastructural projects with the attendant generation of streams of waste which have wanton effects on the environment. The sustainable management of the waste obtainable from the various construction activities requires application of the re-use, recycling and overall waste management processes in order to harness social, environmental and economic values from the volumes of the leftovers of the materials used on sites. Given this, this paper reviews some of the existing and emerging waste management approaches employed in the bid to reduce carbon footprint involved in the need to construct buildings and other infrastructural projects through the fresh production of materials needed in the construction sites in their respective industry or manufacturing outlet. This paper, therefore recommends that the indiscriminate disposal of construction-related waste materials should be avoided by employing the principles of waste minimization involved in integrated waste management to deepen innovative breakthroughs in waste management, reuse and recycling practices.
Keywords: Construction, materials, waste management, recycling, re-use.
