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Research Paper | Civil Engineering | Jordan | Volume 9 Issue 7, July 2020

Review of Waste Management in Construction Industry

Huseyin Gokcekus | Youssef Kassem | Albaraa Harahsheh

Abstract: The world is facing a rapid development in the field of construction due to a very large increase in human numbers, and the construction industry is one of the most important modern industries, because of the large increase in urban development, it produces from this process waste as a result of demolition and construction operations, and the environment is considered the largest negatively affected. This paper aims to do a comprehensive review of the demolition, construction, and waste management processes such as asphalt, brick, concrete, ferrous metals, glass, non-ferrous metals, paper, cardboard, plastic, and wood. to reduce the cost and the negative impact of these wastes on the environment by studying practices that contribute to reducing these impacts by recycling Waste and use again.

Keywords: waste management, development, construction, ferrous metals, glass, non-ferrous metals

Edition: Volume 9 Issue 7, July 2020,

Pages: 1860 - 1866