Circular economy and recycling of pre-consumer scraps in the construction sector. cross-sectoral exchange strategies for the production of eco-innovative building products

Abstract

The chapter reports the results of a research entitled “Ri-scarto”, conducted with the contribution of the “Fratelli Confalonieri” Foundation of Milan. The research investigates the conditions that can facilitate the cross-sectoral exchange (various manufacturing sectors-construction sector) of pre-consumer by-products and scraps, that can be used and/or recycled for making building products. The research proposes the framework of a cross-sectoral virtual marketplace, where the different stakeholders (manufacturers, possible users of by-products and scraps, industrial process planners, public administrators, etc.), organised in a network, can identify, locate and exchange available reusable waste.