Wastes to Low-Carbon Construction Materials

Dr Lei Wang is a Hundred-Talent Program Research Fellow, National Excellent Young Scholar, and Humboldt Fellow at the College of Energy Engineering, Zhejiang University. His research interests include sustainable waste-to-energy technologies, low-carbon hazardous waste treatment, CO2 sequestration and utilisation in minerals. Dr Binglin Guo is a Professor and National Excellent Young Scholar at the School of Civil Engineering, Hefei University of Technology. Director of Anhui engineering research center for low-carbon technology of cementitious materials. His research interests include solid waste utilisation, environmental cement chemistry and low-carbon cementitious materials. Dr Bin Ma is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow, National Excellent Young Scholar and Professor of Cement Environmental Chemistry at the North China Electric Power University Beijing, China. His research interests comprise solid waste disposal chemistry and cement environment chemistry, especially focusing on the radioactive waste treatment.

• Part I Overview of wastes to low-carbon construction materialsPart II Industrial wastes to construction materials1. Recycling of combustion residue as construction materials2. Recycling of slags as construction materials3. Recycling of coal gangue as construction materials4. Recycling of red mud as construction materials5. Recycling of gypsum wastes as construction materials6. Recycling of industrial sludge as construction materials7. Recycling of mining wastes as construction materialsPart III Agriculture wastes to construction materials8. Recycling of wood wastes as construction materials9. Recycling of straw wastes as construction materials10. Recycling of husk wastes as construction materials11. Recycling of crop residue wastes as construction materials12. Recycling of biochar as construction materialsPart IV Municipal solid wastes in construction materials13. Recycling of glass and ceramic wastes as construction materials14. Recycling of plastic wastes as construction materials15. Recycling of yard wastes as construction materials16. Recycling of textiles wastes as construction materials17. Recycling of construction wastes as construction materialsPart V Performance and environmental aspects for the utilization of wastes to construction materials durability of the low-carbon construction materials18. Properties and durability of low-carbon construction materials19. Maintenance of low-carbon construction materials20. Environmental risk and its assessment on wastes utilization as construction materials21. Life cycle assessment of low-carbon construction materials22. Regulations and policies for wastes to low-carbon construction materialsPart VII Future prospects and conclusions