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Waste management in the building industry in Hong Kong has become an important environmental issue. Particularly, an increasing amount of construction and demolition (C&D) waste is being disposed at landfill sites. In order to reduce waste generation and encourage reuse and recycling, the Hong Kong Government has implemented the Construction Waste Disposal Charging Scheme (CWDCS) to levy charge...

The development and implementation of a waste reduction program is a key element in any environmental management program. An effective reduction program must be based on accurate and current information on waste stream generation, and economical and technically-effective waste reduction techniques. This can be accomplished by establishing procedures to collect information, evaluate options, and...

increasingly, companies are focusing on waste reduction in the entire manufacturing process rather than just on end-of-the-pipe waste. The techniques used in waste reduction can be broken own into four major categories-managing inventory, modifying production processes, educing waste volume, and recovering waste. Within each category, examples are given of process or materials changes or modifi...

Inhabitants’ behaviour in buildings has a strong impact on the energy consumption patterns resulting in energy waste. The existing multi agent and centralized energy management approaches are focused on consumption optimization and load predictions without taking into account the inhabitants’ behaviour. We argue that the consumption optimization without waste reduction is difficult. In this art...

Following the Kyoto protocol with respect to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases emissions, and EU energy policy and sustainability in waste management, there has been an increased interest in the reduction of emissions from waste disposal operations. From the point of view of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, waste incineration and waste co-combustion are very acceptable methods for waste disp...

This report presents the results of PRCs waste audit study for the metal finishing industry. The study was conducted to identify opportunities for waste reduction available to the metal finishing industry and to develop a generic audit protocol that can be used by metal finishers to assess their own waste reduction opportunities. The study emphasized technologies available to smalland medium-si...