Examining construction waste management policies in mainland China for potential performance improvements
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Examining construction waste management policies in mainland China for potential performance improvements Hao Lv1 · Yashuai Li1 · Hong‑Bin Yan2 · Di Wu3 · Guanqun Shi4 · Qian Xu5 Received: 2 April 2020 / Accepted: 31 October 2020 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Construction waste typically accounts for roughly 30% of municipal solid waste and thus poses a great challenge to government authorities in almost all cities around the world, especially those in developing counties. To promote the adoption of circular economy and improve construction waste management performance in China’s construction and demolition waste industry, a policy analysis is conducted at three governance levels: the national, provincial, and municipal levels. These policies are examined in relation to the waste management chain, the waste management hierarchy, and governance levels. In particular, four cities, including Beijing, Shenzhen, Xi’an and Changsha, are examined as cases in the analysis. It is found that (1) more attention should be given to construction waste management in all cities, as approximately 44% of all cities do not have their own regulations; (2) the focuses of these policies shift from the end of the construction waste chain to the start of the construction waste management chain, and then to the whole chain; (3) financial and technological instruments could greatly improve performance; and (4) new technologies and instruments could facilitate communications between stakeholders to improve construction waste performance.
* Yashuai Li [email protected] * Qian Xu [email protected] 1
School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Xueyuan Road No. 37, Haidian District, Beijing 100191, China
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School of Business, East China University of Science and Technology, Meilong Road No. 130, Shanghai 200237, China
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Transport Planning and Research Institute, Ministry of Transport, Building 2, 6A Shuguangxili, Beijing 100028, China
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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Institute for Energy Research, Jiangsu University, Xuefu Road No. 301, Zhenjiang 212013, China
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Keywords Construction waste management · Waste management chain · Waste management hierarchy · Mainland china · Policy analysis · Governance system
Introduction Construction waste has been drawing more and more attention from various stakeholders, as it has a number of side effects including the excessive occupation of landfill space, the potential delegation of underground water, etc. It accounts for roughly 30% of municipal solid waste generation in most cities in both developed and developing countries. For example, in 2018, Hong Kong delivered 4,081 (25%) tons per day (tpd) to landfill sites, which received 16,096 tpd municipal solid waste in total (HK-EPD 2019); in the same year, Singapore generated 1,624,500 t
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