Innovation and good practices for the management of plaster board waste in the building site

Since 1991, The European Commission considers Construction and Demolition Waste as one of the six priority waste streams, however it is not until the publication of the Waste Framework Directive that it prioritizes the prevention and reuse of waste instead the waste disposal in landfills. Currently, the building sector and the energy and industry sector generate around 50% of the waste produced in Europe and in particular the CDW represent 33% of the waste generated, assuming in the last decade about 827 million of tons of CDW on average per year, of which only 50% were recycled. In Spain, all this has led the Administration to promote a series of measures, such as those included in Royal Decree 105/2008, which require selecting and recovering some types of CDW that exceed some quantities. In spite of this, Spain continues being one of the main producer of construction and demolition waste in the European Union, presenting, in addition, a reduced level of recovery (around 30-40%) and very far from the objective of the Directive Waste Framework for the year 2020 (recovery of 70% of non-hazardous CDW...