CDW-Based Geopolymers: Pro and Cons of Using Unselected Waste.

ABSTRACT: Geopolymer technology is considered a strategic alternative for recycling construction and demolition waste (CDW) and to produce new construction products which meet the requirements of environmental and energy sustainability. The separation and management of CDW fractions is still a technological complex process and, even if large-scale separation technology is quite common, the necessity to perform this treatment may reduce the environmental and economic benefits of CDW reuse. So, a very promising option is represented by the manufacturing of geopolymers using unseparated CDW. In this aim, waste deriving from cement-based mortars, bricks and natural stones have been selected and widely characterized from a mineralogical, chemical and morphological point of view. Then, geopolymer mortars

SUBMITTER: Capasso I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11902754 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature