Circular Economy and Recycling
of Pre-consumer Scraps
in the Construction Sector.
Cross-Sectoral Exchange Strategies
for the Production of Eco-Innovative
Building Products
Marco Migliore, Ilaria Oberti and Cinzia Talamo
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.
Keywords Circular economy · Waste · By-products · Pre-consumer scraps ·
Sustainable production · Construction sector and innovative building materials
1 Introduction
Reducing the production of waste through prevention, recycling and reuse is one
of the sub-targets present within “Responsible consumption and production”, the
twelfth of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030 (UN United
Nations 2015); it also represents one of the basic strategies at the core of the many
measures and guidelines of the European Commission (EC European Commission
2014, 2015, 2010) supporting the circular economy (MacArthur Foundation 2015a).
The circular economy (MacArthur Foundation 2010, 2015b) perspective leads us to
attribute to by-products and recyclable wastes the potential of virtuous generator of
M. Migliore (B)
Milan, Italy
e-mail: marco.migliore@polimi.it
I. Oberti · C. Talamo
Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering—ABC Department, Politecnico di
Milano, Milan, Italy
© The Author(s) 2020
S. Della Torre et al. (eds.), Regeneration of the Built Environment
from a Circular Economy Perspective, Research for Development,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33256-3_21
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of Pre-consumer Scraps
in the Construction Sector.
Cross-Sectoral Exchange Strategies
for the Production of Eco-Innovative
Building Products
Marco Migliore, Ilaria Oberti and Cinzia Talamo
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.
Keywords Circular economy · Waste · By-products · Pre-consumer scraps ·
Sustainable production · Construction sector and innovative building materials
1 Introduction
Reducing the production of waste through prevention, recycling and reuse is one
of the sub-targets present within “Responsible consumption and production”, the
twelfth of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030 (UN United
Nations 2015); it also represents one of the basic strategies at the core of the many
measures and guidelines of the European Commission (EC European Commission
2014, 2015, 2010) supporting the circular economy (MacArthur Foundation 2015a).
The circular economy (MacArthur Foundation 2010, 2015b) perspective leads us to
attribute to by-products and recyclable wastes the potential of virtuous generator of
M. Migliore (B)
Milan, Italy
e-mail: marco.migliore@polimi.it
I. Oberti · C. Talamo
Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering—ABC Department, Politecnico di
Milano, Milan, Italy
© The Author(s) 2020
S. Della Torre et al. (eds.), Regeneration of the Built Environment
from a Circular Economy Perspective, Research for Development,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33256-3_21
217