Authors : Prerna Tighare, Mr.R.C.Singh
Abstract – Construction industry has gained fast growth in recent decades due to the increase in population, growth in various industrial sectors and very fast increase in the industries and also due to new infrastructural projects resulted in the increase of construction industry drastically. Due to all these conditions demand of construction materials is large for the construction activities which resulted in the generation of large amount of construction wastages. Construction material wastage hence results in huge financial losses to contractors, builders, government authorities and to the customer and, to the country. Waste production due to the old structure demolition is more, than the wastage that occurs during construction of any structures, hence there is need to manage the constructional waste & demolition waste, as municipal solid wastes, is new subject in India. There is no proper estimate regarding the quantity of waste generated in India. The basic reason being in disciplinary and less focused in this issue.
In this paper current status globally, construction and demolition waste management is overviewed and also the sustainable waste management hierarchy is studied so to overcome the waste disposal problem.
