With the continuous process of urbanization, the generation of construction waste in cities is also growing rapidly. While people are enjoying the urban civilization, they are also suffering from municipal waste, including construction waste, which takes up a large proportion and accounts for 30% to 40% of the total garbage. According to some information, rough statistics on construction material waste of brick-concrete structure and frame construction reveal that in the construction process of 10,000 square meters, only construction produces 500 to 600 tons of residue. It will reach hundreds of millions of tons if architectural ornament removal and rebuilding, and construction materials are included. Therefore, dealing with and reusing an increasing amount of construction waste has become an important topic for government departments at all levels and construction waste disposal units.
A significant amount of construction waste can be reused as renewable resources after sorting, removing, or crushing. For example, scrap steel, scrap iron, scrap wire, and various steel accessories can be reprocessed into a variety of steel products after sorting, collecting, and remelting. Bamboo wood waste can be used to make man-made timber. Brick, stone, concrete, and other waste can replace sand after crushing and used for masonry mortar, plaster mortar, hit the concrete layer, etc., and can also be used to make bricks, road bricks, lattice bricks, and other building materials. Therefore, we must insist on comprehensive utilization in construction waste disposal.
In the process of urbanization, rubbish was once a burden on urban development, and many cities in the world were once besieged by rubbish. But today, rubbish is considered to be the most potential for development, an inexhaustible “urban mine,” and “misplaced resources.” This is an in-depth understanding of rubbish and also an essential requirement for urban development.
With the emphasis on environmental issues gradually increasing, energy saving and environmental protection have become the themes of national development and have begun to provide industrial development opportunities for garbage disposal. The world’s rubbish increment speed is 8.42% per year. Renewable resources have become a new starting point for resource recycling and an important component of the recycling economy. Moreover, it not only solves the shortage of resources but also reduces junk emissions during the recycling process of waste resources and waste materials, which can be described as a “double benefit.” Government leadership has begun to pay great attention to landfill construction and increased investment in it, so we can predict that there is a bright future in the waste disposal industry.