environmental impact of concrete recycling

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  (PDF) Mitigating environmental impact of waste …

  20231110 · Moreover, the environmental impacts of cement production can be divided into three categories: global, regional, and local, ... [109] explained that plastic aggregates could be used as coarse aggregates without determining the energy used for their recycling, making them a vital concrete part from an environmental point of view. Adding PET ...

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  Sustainability of recycling plastic waste as fibers for concrete: …

  2023712 · Concrete is one of the most common construction materials, while construction industry is responsible for large quantities of natural resources consumption and solid waste generation [1, 2].Thus, strategies to reduce environmental impacts of concrete are of great importance on a global scale [3,4,5].On the other hand, plastic waste has …

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  Overview on environmental impact of recycled aggregate concrete ...

  202211 · Jiang et al. (2014) investigated the environmental impact of GP, and their results were reported in comparison with the energy demand and the carbon emissions between the use of GP in concrete production and that of the glass container recycling together with the landfilling glass as presented by USEPA Waste Reduction Model 2015.

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  Environmental life-cycle assessment of concrete produced in …

  2022820 · These impacts are then allocated on a mass basis for the contribution of 35% sand and 49% gravel to ready-mix concrete production, with the remaining contributions of 9% cement and 7% water to represent a general-use concrete (Marceau et al., 2007). GREET enables the user to alter the material shares in the concrete if a …

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  Recycling of ladle slag in cement composites: Environmental impacts

  2015523 · In the present study, long-term environmental impacts of compact and ground cement composites, in which 30 wt.% of cement was replaced by washed municipal solid wastes incineration (MSWI) fly ash ...

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  Recycling of glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP

  202371 · Using GFRP waste in concrete reduces environmental impact of the concrete manufacturing process. For instance, fine aggregates are extracted from riverbeds, which is a non-sustainable approach [47], [52]. Therefore, incorporating GFRP recyclates into concrete has the potential to improve sustainability.

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  Production of natural and recycled aggregates: the environmental ...

  2017622 · Studying the environmental impacts of recycled construction materials such as plastic, polypropylene , iron, glass, cement, and others has been targeted around the world. Thus, recycling glass containers has resulted in a significant reduction by 27 and 37% in energy consumption and GHG emissions, respectively .

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  Environmental impacts of using recycled plastics in concrete

  202211 · The environmental impacts are reduced by 58% for the concrete mixture with 47% aggregate. Betita [49] Conducted LCA for recycled plastic aggregate for concrete application. Carbon emission and energy consumption were reduced by 15.4% and 16.1%, respectively, for 15% recycled content in concrete.

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  Environmental impact assessment of pavement road bases …

  202141 · 1. Introduction. The construction industry plays a decisive role in the modern industrial system, which consumes 40–60% of natural material resources, emits 40–50% of global greenhouse gas emissions (Xia et al., 2020), and has been aggravating the environmental crisis.To reduce carbon emissions or other environmental impacts in …

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