This study identifies, documents, and assesses the existing levels of awareness and implementation of sustainability …, designers, and contractors supplemented with four case studies illustrating the recycling of construction demolition waste (CDW … which were limited to green design efforts and uncoordinated attempts at recycling construction demolition materials. The …

The EU advocates a household waste recycling rate of more than 70%. Although the Netherlands already years ago invested … policies are effective in increasing the recycling rates. Based on a large panel data set for the Netherlands , we show that … in recycling policies heavily, this is still a large challenge as nowadays on average this rate is approximately 50% and …

approaches to diverting school food waste from landfills: reduction and recycling. Food waste can be reduced through educating …

exerts a recycling effort to reduce the stock of waste. Recycling also generates income, which is fully devoted to capital … accumulation. The whole problem amounts to choosing the optimal control paths for consumption and recycling to maximize a social … welfare function that notably includes the waste stock and disutility from the recycling effort. We provide a mathematical …

Design for recycling has been promoted by companies and governments around the world as one of the most important … practices for achieving sustainability. The success or failure of such a practice, however, depends heavily on the financial … to implement the practice of design for recycling from the interdisciplinary perspective. …