Adopting the Zero Waste Concept for Minimization of Waste in the Construction Projects

Abstract

Construction is one of the basic needs for development and gross domestic product growth for any country, thus government policies promote rapid construction growth. Rapid construction growth with the lack of infrastructure for waste handling contributes abnormally to waste generation during construction, maintenance, and demolition phases. The waste hierarchy categorizes waste management initiatives into four hierarchical tiers. This includes reduction, reuse, recycling, recovery, and disposal. While quotreducequot and quotre-usequot providing more significant environmental and economic advantages. The former endeavors to reduce waste generation, whereas the latter focuses on reabsorbing waste. When quotreduce and reusequot becomes impractical, recycling and processing waste materials to make a derivative product becomes the best alternative. newlineZero Waste is a philosophy that promotes rethinking resource life cycles to ensure all items are reused. The objective is to send no waste to landfills. It aids individuals in modifying construction processes to adhere to sustainable natural cycles, in which all wasted materials are intended to become resources for others. newlineA lot of work has been done in the field of reducing and reuse of construction waste that is getting generated during the construction process. Activities were identified in the construction process and efforts were made to reuse the waste generated in other activities. The research was also carried out in the field of construction design, keeping in view ease of construction and utilization of material to the maximum extent, ensuring waste minimization. However, this set of research lacked vigorously since it failed to establish a methodology encompassing all phases of project delivery. Consequently, a dynamic methodology is required to examine the interaction between the primary waste-efficient indicators at the design, procurement, and construction stages. This would not only establish the effects of one waste mitigation technique on others, but it would also equip pra