Abstract

Recent decades have seen a marked upsurge in industrial and economic growth, contributing to an improved quality of life and well-being for citizens. However, we should not lose sight of the fact that every production system creates by-products and waste products which can affect the environment. These effects may occur at any point in the product’s life-cycle, whether during the initial phase of obtaining raw materials, during the transformation and production phase, during product distribution or when the end user must dispose of products which are no longer required. As a result, recent years have witnessed rising social concern about the problem of waste management in general, and industrial waste and waste from the construction industry in particular. This problem is becoming increasingly acute due to the growing quantity of industrial, construction and demolition waste generated despite the measures which have been taken in recent years at European Community, national and regional levels aimed at controlling and regulating waste management, in accordance with sustainable development policies and the Kyoto Protocol. The need to manage these wastes has become one of the most pressing issues of our times, requiring specific actions aimed at preventing waste generation such as promotion of resource recovery systems (reuse, recycling and waste-toenergy systems) as a means of exploiting the resources contained within waste, which would otherwise be lost, thus reducing environmental impact. In addition to helping protect the environment, use of such waste offers a series of advantages such as a reduction in the use of other raw materials, contributing to an economy of natural resources. Moreover, reuse also offers benefits in terms of energy, primarily when the waste is from kiln industries (the ceramics industry) where highly endothermic decomposition reactions have already taken place, thus recovering the energy previously incorporated during production. Ceramic waste may come from two sources. The first source is the ceramics industry, and this waste is classified as non-hazardous industrial waste (NHIW). According to the Integrated National Plan on Waste 2008-2015, NHIW is all waste generated by industrial 10

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