Environmental Sustainability and Cost Benefit Analysis of Building Demolition Waste Management in Construction Projects for Nashik City

This paper presents the management practices for construction and demolition waste within the construction sector of Nashik city, focusing specifically on residential and infrastructure projects. The analysis of the potential for reuse and recycling was conducted using descriptive statistics. The study evaluates three different structures performing questionnaire survey and estimate before and after the utilization of construction and demolition materials. The generation of construction and demolition waste has escalated due to the rapid urbanization of towns and cities. Due to the increase in the economic growth after development and redevelopment projects in the country and subsequent increase in the urbanization in the cities has made construction sector to increase drastically, but also environmental impacts from building demolition waste are increasingly becoming a major issue in urban solid waste management. Environmental issues such as increase in the flood levels due to the illegal dumping of construction and demolition waste into the rivers, resource depletion, shortage of landfill and illegal dumping on hill slopes are evident in the metro cities. The main aim of this research is to reduce the environmental impact of C&D activities by promoting sustainable practices like waste minimization, reuse, and recycling. The report highlights the necessity of recycling construction waste, raising awareness about waste management challenges, and promoting the availability of recycling technologies.