Circularity practices in the management of C&D waste in construction industry: a literature review of the strategies and key aspects about its implementation

Abstract

Construction industry is one of the most sectors with social, environmental, and economic impacts due to the great demand of raw materials, as being responsible of an important worldwide energetic spend, generation of greenhouse gases as CO2 and the lithospheric materials depletion. Circular economy turns into a paradigm that allow the transition towards new economic models. The present article has as purpose to make a bibliographic systematic review included in scientific data bases of high international recognize about those practices of circularity in the context of construction industry. It also contains the characterization among the authors, keywords, countries, and the most noted journals according to the number of the publications and its geographic characterization. In the case of the strategies and categories, it exists elements in common among the authors and the results obtained, most of them focused on the phases of design-planification, construction and demolition