What is it about?
This study examines the prospect of recycled clay brick waste, ground into powder and reuse as construction materials to substitute cement in producing green moderate strength concrete for use in developing nations and recommendations to deepen material recycling and reuse for future developmental needs.
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Why is it important?
Of recent, concerns on the need for a sustainable and clean environment have of recent heightened awareness about the need for recycling and reusing of solid wastes that are major source of environmental pollution. Wastes are rising due to rapid population growth, urbanization, industrialization, and increased in construction activities, and the conventional management practice of treating these wastes, especially in developing nations, is open disposal on landfills and dump sites which is deemed unsafe and unsustainable. Therefore, there is need for alternatives that will help provide effective waste management practice thereby ensuring a cleaner and greener environment.
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Reusing waste in concrete production create alternative solution for effective waste management and limiting the impact of concrete production on the environment.
Dr Oluwarotimi M Olofinnade
Covenant University
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This page is a summary of: Sustainability of Waste Glass Powder and Clay Brick Powder as Cement Substitute in Green Concrete, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-73645-7_112.
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