Construction and demolition waste

Construction and demolition waste

Landfill taxes – Dedicated green taxes to reduce waste sent to landfill

The challengeFollowing the waste hierarchy, landfill or disposal of waste is the least preferred step in its management. With the aim to extract the maximum practical benefits from products and to ...

ALOIS: Innovative information system aiming at recycling and re-using soil, demolition waste and construction materials.

The challengeScarcity of resources and energy is a global challenge. One possible solution is waste management based on the growing understanding that ’waste’ is actually a resource ...

Prevention and management of household waste in Flanders, Belgium

The challengeReducing the amount of waste ending up in the landfill is a key to a sustainable waste management. In Flanders a holistic approach to waste management has been adopted, which attempts, by...

Advanced sorting techniques for construction and demolition waste

The challengeThe EC Waste Directive 2008/98 targets a more sustainable construction industry by 2020, recovering a 70% (by weight) of its non-hazardous construction and ...

A wood plastic composite with up to 95% recycled materials

The challengeThe construction and demolition waste (C&D waste) is one of the largest waste streams in the EU. The EC Waste Directive 2008/98 targets a more sustainable ...