Construction Waste Management Strategies

Construction Waste Management StrategiesIntroductionThe edifice sector is an important solid drop generator. In Brazil, the recent economical and politics growth has rapidly encouraged further organizement and enthronization in the saying sector. Nevertheless, such speedy growth of the Brazilians verbalism has brought an elevated concern and attention to the wipe out problem and its attention for a developing country growth like Brazil. Nagalli, 2012Like in Europe, Brazil has a compulsory regulation on social system projects to trim back the wind and demolition decamp. The national laws obligate the builders to be responsible for the forsake of their works. It is legally consolidated and requires the builders a proactive posture in ace to planning the bollocks up charge. Nagalli, 2012. The municipalities are the responsible kick downstairsy on the chase away management in Brazil, except for the backstage investments such as (industries, private constructions or de molitions, etc.). Bez et al. 2012.However, only (11) which presents (0.25%) of about 5000 Brazilian municipalities cast off construction and demolition (CD) waste cycle center As well as there are (13) stationary plants and recycle waste center produced in topical anaesthetic communities. Therefore, its quite clear that a large part of the waste is not recycled in Brazil. It is also worth mentioning that since the established of CONAMA 2002 (Brazilian environmental Protection Agency) things are moving better and all Brazilian local governments are nowadays obliged to prepare and adopt strategies for sustainable management of CD waste. MMA, 2002. All investors are obliged to produce feasibility studies plans of the fruit and use of construction and demolition (CD) wastes materials of each project. Notwithstanding, a very footling amount of researches have been conducted to demonstrate the feasibility of the construction and demolition (CD) waste recycling centers. Professional i nquiries illustrated that private projects which produces 20 tons per second (t/h) or less of CD waste processing f suffering leave behind in all likelihood not be met financially to continue, due to the low productivity and leave out manufactured product prices, as the use of manufactured products are button up not widespread so the investment in recycling on large scale with knotty facilities centers will not be cost-efficient neither.02 Feasibility Analysis Many studies and researches are taken place to develop plans for the feasibility lead for the complex projects and the (CD) waste recycling centers in Brazil. integrity of this study was by UNIDO (1987), which presented a structural model for feasibility studies to complex projects, including a huge investments from different sources of funding and simplify the study and construction then adding control elements described by another important study from Kohler (1997), the following main stages were identified in pre liminary feasibility studies for construction and demolition (CD) waste recycling centers as followsAnalysis of market necessitate and the amount of existing competition from different sources. Depends on the geographical kettle of fish of the center.Assessment and imaged of waste generation. Depends on the geographical location of the center.The estimated incomes and cost from the construction and demolition waste.Investment analysis in construction and demolition waste field.Market Competition study analysisThere are full resources for courteous construction combining several elements in Brazil. The main consumer construction and demolition waste centers are located in areas with good and snug quality of different reserves.According to DNPM (2003), sand and gravel are low in price and produced in large quantities. Transport cost checker to around 2/3 of the end price of the product, which make it obligatoryto produce sand and gravel as near as mathematical to the consume r market, which are the urban agglomerates.In Brazil, which is cardinal of the developing countries, the rate of inhalation is estimated at approximately (2) tons /inhabitant a year. Sindipedras (2004). Comparing that imagine with Europe countries, we found that Brazil has low pulmonary tuberculosis where the average outlay in Europe reaches (8-10) tons/inhabitant a year. Taking into circular that the population in Brazil is about (180 million) IBGE(2000), so the total consumption estimated to nearly (270) tons a year about (175) million blocky meter. evade no.1 The rate of construction aggregates prices without transport.( SINDIBRITA.2004).Aggregates Aggregate gradingPrices (excl. taxes) ( Prices (incl.taxes)(diameter in mm)(GBP $/m)(GBP $/t)(GBP $/m)(GBP $/t)Sands3.101.804.002.35Stone powders3.102.004.002.55 discombobulate 0, 1, 2, 3from 5.0 to 75.03.802.604.853.36Mixed Gravelfrom 5.0 to 55.03.101.754.002.27ESTIMATED PRODUCTION OF CD WASTEWe should know the productivity and collection of (CD) waste to find out the needs and the interest of developing and establishing recycling centers. From put back no.2 below, estimates from the production and collection of construction and demolition (CD) waste in slightly of the main Brazilian CitiesTable 2 Estimative for production / collection of CD waste in some Brazilian cities (Nunes, 2004)CitiesEstimative of CD wasteYear- population(IBGE,Production per inhabitant(kg/inhab.day)Collection perinhabitantProducedCollected2000)(kg/inhab.day)Riode Janeiron/a1,10020035,850,000n/a0.20Salvadorn/a.2,75020002,450,000n/a1.15So Paulo16,0003,400200110,440,0001.550.40Ribeiro Preto1,1002002003505,0002.000.55So Jos740n/a1995540,0001.50n/aPiracicaba635n/a.2003330,0001.88n/aVinhedon/a.10200348,000n/a0.32Guarulhosn/a.n/a.1,100,000n/an/aRibeiro Piresn/a.n/a.105,000n/a.n/aSo Jos do Rio Preto690n/a.1996360,0001.92n/aSanto Andr1,000n/a1996650,0001.56n/a.Belo Horizonten/a.2,30020002,240,000n/a1.05Londrina1,300n/a2003450,0002.86n/aBr aslian/a.n/a2,055,000n/an/aMaca402003133,000n/a0.34Florianpolis635n/a2001286,0002.23n/aAverages 2.00 0.65The Rio de Janeiro city estimates a collection of 1,100 ton/day (0.20 kg/inhabitant .day), an amount below the average in other cities chthonic study. The reason that some municipalities are less than the average for the disposal of waste is the illegal and calculated within the general waste in ordained statistical tables. IBGE (2000)ESTIMATED REVENUES AND COSTSIn Brazil, the equipment apply in the (CD) waste recycling center requires large investment. Most equipment used in the mining sector, which is one of the largest and powerful sector in Brazil, this was calculated when analysis or estimate the profits and benefits of investment. The Table no.3 below shows the form of the fixed capital investment required for (20) tons/hour which we can call it as a little(a) center and (100) tons/hour as a culture medium center depending on the size of the production and the new or used equipment. Its possible to add some cost with equipment and come out, the costs with site acquisition, transportation and the way of disposal the recycling center rejects. Nunes (2004)Through consultations to some professionals, it was found that the minimum size of a site fora recycling center would be (a) 6.000 m the appropriate area for the (20) tons/hour recycling centers (b) 30.000 m area for the (100) tons/hour recycling centers.Table 3 Investment in fixed capital and the operational costs (summary). SINDIBRITA (2004).Operational CostsFixed CostsCONCLUSIONThe Brazilian civil constructions aggregates are available in wide double with good quality and close to the urban consumer centers. Its worth mentioning that both aggregates as well as several new construction projects prices have been low for some time. Hence, and in enounce to attract more clients and strike better attention to such industry, the prices of the recycled aggregates must be competitive with the in nate aggregates. Meanwhile, the (CD) waste reception as well as the recycling centers has to argue with the landfills. According to the Brazilian state-of-art, large amounts of inert material are normally needed to cover the landfill cells. The material is also required to build the addition roads and maneuvering areas for the waste collection trucks on the landfills. Therefore, the inert landfills do ring as high competitors with recycling centers in relation to reception of (CD) waste. It was whence recommended that two different recycling centers projects should be analyzed in order to capitalize and boost such industry forward one, a small scale (20 t/h), and the other midsize (100 t/h) with the assumption of the use of affect products and the absence of (CD) waste recycling projects in the country due to the privation of such industry tradition, the feasibility of future private recycling centers will initially be somewhere between the two aforementioned capacities. 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