The UK currently consumes 600 million tonnes of products annually while generating about 220 million tonnes of waste. Not only do construction, demolition and excavation contribute about 60 per cent of this amount, but the built environment accounts for 45 percent of the UK's total CO_2 emissions. Reducing waste is not enough to change this-but, together with reappropriating waste back into construction as a way of slashing the construction industry's carbon emissions contribution, it could be a game-changer. In the context of the AJ's ongoing RetroFirst campaign for a circular construction industry, how easy a win could this be?
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