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Construction & Demolition waste flows (Module 7) - Online course Sector-Wide Circularity Assessment

Outline of the video

  • Looking at waste in two phases: collection and treatment
  • Closer look at waste from use phase and stock
  • Waste during construction, cutoffs, broken stuff, (incl. packaging)
  • Demolition waste + Renovation waste
    • bigger shares and they come out from the stock to then be collected
    • demolition is generally done by professionals
    • renovation: smaller ones can be done by individuals and households, who will bring their rubble to drop-off points, which are usually managed by public agencies. In case of private companies, they usually have their own paths for waste disposal.
    • Sorting bins sometimes are there to collect a single material (mono stream) or they are mixed

  • M2:44, waste treatment: different types depending on the material. Many materials will be crushed and then used as road cover. There is a bit of reuse and some recycling.
  • You will know the material composition from the stock analysis of the previous module.
  • 2 more important pieces of information: (1) number of renovations. (2) number of demolitions to better estimate the amounts of waste
  • M5:22, Examples

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