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Waste Recycling in Construction Industry

The document discusses waste recycling in the construction industry in India. It notes that construction, maintenance, and demolition activities generate a large amount of construction and demolition waste that is often dumped in landfills. However, materials like concrete and masonry make up about 50% of this waste and are currently not recycled in India. The project aims to increase reuse and recycling of construction and demolition waste by using recycled materials in construction works. It also focuses on reusing other waste from construction like fly ash, red mud, and gypsum. Recycling aggregate materials from construction waste could help reduce shortages in building materials and help achieve targets in housing and road development in a more sustainable way. The project involves experimental studies comparing products made

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Waste Recycling in Construction Industry

The document discusses waste recycling in the construction industry in India. It notes that construction, maintenance, and demolition activities generate a large amount of construction and demolition waste that is often dumped in landfills. However, materials like concrete and masonry make up about 50% of this waste and are currently not recycled in India. The project aims to increase reuse and recycling of construction and demolition waste by using recycled materials in construction works. It also focuses on reusing other waste from construction like fly ash, red mud, and gypsum. Recycling aggregate materials from construction waste could help reduce shortages in building materials and help achieve targets in housing and road development in a more sustainable way. The project involves experimental studies comparing products made

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WASTE RECYCLING IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY (WRCI)

In construction industry, due to increasing construction, maintenance, retrofitting and


demolition activities across the country, it generates a considerable quantity of construction and
demolition waste that are just dumped in landfills. Owing to the shortage of space for land
reclamation in India, it is difficult to dispose off tonnes of C&D waste generated daily from
construction and demolition activities. While some of the items like bricks, tiles, wood, metal are
re-used and recycled, concrete and masonry, constituting about 50 per cent of the CDW is not
currently recycled in India. But CDW materials have valuable properties and it can be reused or
recycled up to a high extent. As in other countries, the CDW materials are being recycled more
than 70% and fluently used in construction industry.
The project includes re-use & recycling of the construction & demolition waste and to
make an effort in construction works from the recycled CDW and also the other waste generated
from the construction industry means production waste like, fly ash, red mud, gypsum, rice husk
etc. Some production waste can be reused easily along with concrete waste. It is estimated that the
construction industry in India generates about 10-12 million tonnes of waste annually. Projections
for building material requirement of the housing sector indicate a shortage of aggregates to the
extent of about 55,000 million cu.m. An additional 750 million cu.m. aggregates would be required
for achieving the targets of the road sector. Recycling of aggregate material from construction and
demolition waste may reduce the demand-supply gap in both these sectors.
The project deals with the experimental studies/comparisons of the products made by
recycled materials and that made by standard materials, so that we can use the recycled materials
at right place to a maximum extent. The recycling of waste generated from the construction
industry is must for the sustainable and economic development of our country.

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