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Life cycle assessment of construction and demolition waste management

Butera, Stefania, Christensen, Thomas H., Astrup, Thomas F.·2015·Waste Management
DOI 10.1016/j.wasman.2015.07.011
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Life cycle assessment (LCA) modelling of construction and demolition waste (C&DW) management was carried out. The functional unit was management of 1 Mg mineral, source separated C&DW, which is either utilised in road construction as a substitute for natural aggregates, or landfilled. The assessed environmental impacts included both non-toxic and toxic impact categories. The scenarios comprised all stages of the end-of-life management of C&DW, until final disposal of all residues. Leaching of inorganic contaminants was included, as was the production of natural aggregates, which was avoided because of the use of C&DW. Typical uncertainties related to contaminant leaching were addressed. For most impact categories, utilisation of C&DW in road construction was preferable to landfilling; however, for most categories, utilisation resulted in net environmental burdens. Transportation represented the most important contribution for most nontoxic impacts, accounting for 60-95 per cent of these impacts. Capital goods contributed with negligible impacts. Leaching played a critical role for the toxic categories, where landfilling had lower impacts than utilisation because of the lower levels of leachate per ton of C&DW reaching the groundwater over a 100-year perspective. Leaching of oxyanions (As, V and Sb) was critical with respect to leaching. Typical experimental uncertainties in leaching data did not have a pivotal influence on the results; however, accounting for Cr immobilisation in soils as part of the impact assessment was critical for modelling the leaching impacts. Compared with the overall life cycle of building and construction materials, leaching emissions were shown to be potentially significant for toxicity impacts, compared with contributions from production of the same materials, showing that end-of-life impacts and leaching should not be disregarded when assessing environmental impacts from construction products and materials. CO2 uptake in the C&DW corresponding to 15 per cent carbonation could out-balance global warming impacts from transportation; however, carbonation would also likely result in increased toxicity impacts due to higher leaching of oxyanions.

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Authors
Butera, S., Christensen, T. H., & Astrup, T. F.
Affiliations
Technical University of Denmark (DK)
Corresponding author
Butera, Stefania
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Venue
Waste Management
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2015-10
Volume
44
Pages
196-205
ISSN
0956-053X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.wasman.2015.07.011
OpenAlex
W1269396905
Cited by
240
References
68
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FWCI
17.64
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Waste Management (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Danish Research Council
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Environmental Impact and Sustainability
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production
Keywords
construction and demolition waste, aggregate replacement, road construction, landfilling, leaching, arsenic, vanadium, antimony, environmental impact of transport, carbonation, CO2 uptake, global warming, source separation
MeSH terms
Construction Materials, Refuse Disposal, Transportation, Waste Management, Solid Waste

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