Evaluation of the factors affecting for selection the optimal site for construction & demolition waste recycling

Abstract

Iraq suffers from a large proportion of construction and demolition waste (C&DW) not exploited and causes a lot of environmental and health problems, therefore it is necessary to recycle this waste. The researcher used five point Likert scale to find out the degree of influence for the concluded factors on choosing an optimum site for recycling (C&DW) in Baghdad Governorate. The researcher received 40 of (44) distributed questionnaire. The results showed that all factors have a high (RII). The sequences of the main and sub-factors in terms of the importance were environmental: (distance to surface water, distance to reserves and natural attraction areas, distance to natural and national parks, distance to airports, distance to the military bases), economical: (the distance to the secondary sorting sites for (C&DW), the distance to the sanitary landfill of (C&DW), the distance from the highway taboo, land ownership, the distance to the rail network, the distance to the areas which constructed more than 50 years ago, the distance to the quarries in the region, the degree of inclination or slope of the land), social: (distance to the population groupings, distance to cultural and religious milestones, distance to historical monuments), technical: (available land area, land type).