title: Production patterns of packaging waste categories generated at typical Mediterranean residential building worksites.
abstract: The construction sector is responsible for around 28% of the total waste volume generated in Europe, which exceeds the amount of household waste. This has led to an increase of different research studies focusing on construction waste quantification. However, within the research studies made, packaging waste has been analyzed to a limited extent. This article focuses on the packaging waste stream generated in the construction sector. To this purpose current on-site waste packaging management has been assessed by monitoring ten Mediterranean residential building works. The findings of the experimental data collection revealed that the incentive measures implemented by the construction company to improve on-site waste sorting failed to achieve the intended purpose, showing low segregation ratios. Subsequently, through an analytical study the generation patterns for packaging waste are established, leading to the identification of the prevailing kinds of packaging and the products responsible for their generation. Results indicate that plastic waste generation maintains a constant trend throughout the whole construction process, while cardboard becomes predominant towards the end of the construction works with switches and sockets from the electricity stage. Understanding the production patterns of packaging waste will be beneficial for adapting waste management strategies to the identified patterns for the specific nature of packaging waste within the context of construction worksites.
authors.affiliation: Escuela Técnica Superior de Edificación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Calle Juan de Herrera n°6, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: natalia.gpericot@upm.es.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: González Pericot
authors.affiliation: Escuela Técnica Superior de Edificación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Calle Juan de Herrera n°6, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: paola.villoria@upm.es.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Villoria Sáez
authors.affiliation: Escuela Técnica Superior de Edificación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Calle Juan de Herrera n°6, 28040 Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: mercedes.delrio@upm.es.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Del Río Merino
authors.affiliation: Escuela de Arquitectura, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Calle Tajo s/n, 28670 Villaviciosa de Odón, Spain. Electronic address: oscar.liebana@uem.es.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Liébana Carrasco
mesh_terms: D060389:Construction Industry; D006798:Housing; D019064:Product Packaging; D062611:Solid Waste / Q000032:analysis*; D013030:Spain; D018505:Waste Management
chemical_list: D062611:Solid Waste
keywords: Best practice; Construction waste; Packaging; Quantification; Waste minimization