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Waste and Climate Change – Global Trends and Strategy Framework

UNEP is clearly positioned to help catalyse enhanced action for climate change mitigation within the waste sector, collaborating with existing organisations to ensure more effective delivery of initiatives across the globe. As the designated authority of the United Nations system in environmental issues, UNEP has a key role to play …

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Waste and Climate Change – Global Trends and Strategy Framework

UNEP is clearly positioned to help catalyse enhanced action for climate change mitigation within the waste sector, collaborating with existing organisations to ensure more effective delivery of initiatives across the globe. As the designated authority of the United Nations system in environmental issues, UNEP has a key role to play …

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Waste and Climate Change – Global Trends and Strategy Framework

UNEP is clearly positioned to help catalyse enhanced action for climate change mitigation within the waste sector, collaborating with existing organisations to ensure more effective delivery of initiatives across the globe. As the designated authority of the United Nations system in environmental issues, UNEP has a key role to play …

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Waste and Climate Change – Global Trends and Strategy Framework

UNEP is clearly positioned to help catalyse enhanced action for climate change mitigation within the waste sector, collaborating with existing organisations to ensure more effective delivery of initiatives across the globe. As the designated authority of the United Nations system in environmental issues, UNEP has a key role to play …

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Waste and Climate Change – Global Trends and Strategy Framework

UNEP is clearly positioned to help catalyse enhanced action for climate change mitigation within the waste sector, collaborating with existing organisations to ensure more effective delivery of initiatives across the globe. As the designated authority of the United Nations system in environmental issues, UNEP has a key role to play …

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Strategies for innovation in construction and demolition waste management in Brazil

The paper aims to present the strategies for innovation in construction and demolition waste management in Brazil and to compare them with international ones. The CDW traditional management is very costly to local authorities including several environmental impacts. The Brazilian experience shows that a policy based only on regulation of …

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Characterization of Brazilian construction and demolition waste coarse recycled aggregate

This article aims to apply the combination of heavy media and hand sorting in representative samples of Brazilian CDW aggregates from two different recycling plants and to characterize relevant fractions by chemical, mineralogical and physical tests. Three national CDW coarse recycled aggregates were sampled, sieved, separated in four heavy media …

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Strategies for innovation in construction and demolition waste management in Brazil

The paper aims to present the strategies for innovation in construction and demolition waste management in Brazil and to compare them with international ones. The CDW traditional management is very costly to local authorities including several environmental impacts. The Brazilian experience shows that a policy based only on regulation of …

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