Referring Sustainable Waste Management Strategy Drives Life-Cycle Sustainable Building Benefits Of China

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10.2991/iccet-15.2015.103How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Construction Waste Management; Waste Minimization; Sustainable Building

Abstract

Construction is one of the major industries that generate wealth to China. Construction industry contribute a large of portion of solid waste stream which causes the grave negative impacts towards environment and ecosystem in China. There are increasingly serious problems that are faced by Chinese government and construction industry pertaining to waste minimization and waste management practices in construction projects nowadays. The management and appropriate use of construction waste is a good solution to the fast degradation of virgin raw materials in the construction industry of China. Hence, this paper enlightens the importance of reduce, reuse and recycle (3R) concept for managing the construction waste in China, and outlines the structure of the research for developing the framework of construction waste minimization for contractors.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Mr. Yunhui Yang
AU  - Mr. Yishan Zhao
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TI  - Referring Sustainable Waste Management Strategy Drives Life-Cycle Sustainable Building Benefits Of China
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Transportation 2015
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SN  - 2352-5401
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