Reduce, reuse, recycle and recovery in sustainable construction waste management

Advanced Materials Research

Volumn 446-449, Issue , 2012, Pages 937-944

  Kazerooni Sadi, M A ^a   Abdullah, Arham ^a   Sajoudi, Masoud Navazandeh ^a   Bin Mustaffa Kamal, Mohd Firdaus ^b   Torshizi, Fatemeh ^a   Taherkhani, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Construction waste management; Recovery; Recycle; Reduce; Reuse; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION WASTES; MANAGEMENT PROCESS; RECYCLE; REDUCE; REUSE; SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION; SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE MINIMISATION; WASTE MINIMIZATION; WASTE REDUCTION;

BUILDING MATERIALS; CIVIL ENGINEERING; CONSERVATION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; PROFITABILITY; RECOVERY; RECYCLING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84857186456     PISSN: 10226680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.446-449.937     Document Type: Conference Paper

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