Environmental life cycle assessment of construction and demolition waste recycling: A case of urban India

The study compares life cycle environmental implications of two construction and demolition waste (C&DW) management alternatives, inert landfilling and integrated wet recycling, on many impact categories under several scenarios. Integrated wet-recycling valorizes coarse aggregates, sand, and soil, recovering over 95 percent of incoming C&DW waste. Using data from recycling plants operational in New Delhi complemented by the ecoinvent database,...