What is it about?
This work describes how to estimate the 'true' internal costs of construction waste to promote environmentally friendly waste management. The study employs CBA, CMA, PPP and the mathematical EUROPE model for assigning industrial costs to construction waste.
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Waste is regarded as, in a business sense, having the same basic status as any normal industrial product, denoted the ‘equality principle’. The methodology creates incentives for improvement of the environmental impact and the profitability in construction companies and other industrial sectors.
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This page is a summary of: Construction waste management based on industrial management models: a Swedish case study, Waste Management & Research The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy, February 2005, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0734242x05050184.
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