Reduce, reuse, sustainable recycle and recovery technique in construction waste management
Construction industry consume substantial amount of raw materials in the process and the output is obviously the product and most importantly the waste material. Other than that, construction industry is well known as one of the worst environmental polluters. This study is to determine the use of...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/3969/1/24p%20MOHD%20FIRDAUS%20MUSTAFFA%20KAMAL.pdf |
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| Summary: | Construction industry consume substantial amount of raw materials in the
process and the output is obviously the product and most importantly the waste
material. Other than that, construction industry is well known as one of the worst
environmental polluters. This study is to determine the use of waste minimization
technique in creating sustainable waste management in order to identify the
technique which has the most capabilities to reduce waste on-site. The objective is to
assess the waste minimization techniques taken from the 4R concept which is reduce,
reuse, recycle and recovery technique in minimizing the waste in construction waste
management. Questionnaire has been distributed randomly across the district of
Johor Bahru, and the data has been analyzed using Statistical Packages for Social
Science (SPSS) software to determine whether the output meet its original objective.
The most used waste minimization technique found in 4R concept would be the
waste reduction. This shows that local construction industry has the awareness to
plan out the waste management planning but the implementation is still far from
satisfying. This is has been proven with the result of second objective which shows
that none of the techniques tested in the 4R concept gave a significant relationship in
minimizing the waste produced on site. However among four techniques tested for
this research, waste recycle gave significant difference. This shows that physical
profit gave reasoning for the construction practitioners to adapt to this technique
because the nature of the industry which is profit making. |
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