An overview of the waste hierarchy framework for analyzing the circularity in construction and demolition waste

Chunbo Zhang1, Mingming Hu2, Francesco Di Maio3

  • 1Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands.

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