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Peihua Fu [1] and Hongxuan Li [1] and Xiaohua Wang [1] and Juanjuan Luo [1] and Sha-lei Zhan [1] and Chao Zuo [1]

Academic Editor: Rita Gamberini

Logistics Management and Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China, zjgsu.edu.cn

Received Jun 17, 2017; Accepted Oct 10, 2017

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1. Introduction

1.1. Background and Motivation

The construction industry is a pillar industry of many countries especially for China, which produces a lot of waste while consuming large amounts of resources. CDW usually includes concrete, wood, metal, gypsum board, building materials packaging cartons, plastic, asphalt, and debris. Due to the complex composition of construction waste and random stacking, how to deal with the CDW has become an urgent problem for many countries. Many scholars have studied the negative impacts of CDW on the environment, economy, and society. And these negative impacts will cause a lot of obstacles to our environment. For example, CDW will take up many land resources for accumulation. Study has shown that 10,000 tons of construction waste occupied 0.067 hectares of land [1]. Under certain conditions, some of the organic material in CDW will be converted to acid and alkali substances and then will enter the soil and the atmosphere; thus the air and water would be polluted [2].

China, as a rising power, has attracted increasing attention from the world [3, 4]. The rapidly growing economy has propelled the development of construction industry. As the accumulation of a large number of CDW caused serious pollution to the environment, the demand of recycling in CDW has grown substantially. From Table 1‎ [1], we can see that, in any structure, CDW accounts for a large proportion in the purchase of materials. Table 2 [1] depicts the main proportion of the CDW in terms of buildings in Hong Kong; it can be found that most of the waste material can be reused. As presented in Tables 1 and 2, promoting the construction of waste recycling and comprehensive utilization of resources has become an imperative requirement to build a resource-efficient and environmentally friendly society.

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