Rethinking construction: Circular economy offers sustainable future

The amount of waste generated by the construction sector underscores an urgent need for embracing circularity—a sustainable model that aims to minimize waste and maximize material efficiency through recovery and reuse—in the built environment: 600 million tons of construction and demolition waste was produced in the United States alone in 2018, with 820 million tons reported in the European Union, and an excess of 2 billion tons annually in China.

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