Measuring the impact of the life cycle assessment methodology on construction and demolition waste recycling operations, an exploratory study in the Mosul Municipality Directorate/Waste and Solid Waste Recycling Plan

Abstract

The current research seeks to measure the impact of the life cycle assessment methodology on construction and demolition waste recycling operations, an exploratory study in the Mosul Municipality Directorate/Waste and Solid Waste Recycling Plant, as a result of the great benefits achieved by the life cycle assessment methodology in terms of reducing the level of pollution in various types of industries and proposing methods. An alternative to many operations with the aim of preventing the appearance of pollutants. From this standpoint, the research aims to apply it in a field characterized by a high level of environmental pollution, which is construction and demolition waste, which has become a problem that the city of Mosul suffers from due to the liberation operations and subsequent reconstruction operations. Based on this basis, the research interviewed a group Of the questions and hypotheses, which were tested statistically using a questionnaire form for the opinions of workers in the Mosul Municipality Directorate, where (207) questionnaires were distributed that included only the segment of engineers working there, and in light of their answers and relying on the software package (AMOS V26, SPSS V.26), the researchers reached a number Among the conclusions, the most important is that the directorate under discussion does not have a special department concerned with measuring the level of negative impacts of all kinds of waste, including the waste under study. Also, the directorate’s procedures related to building demolition operations do not include the removal of pollutants, and this affects the level of their quality. In light of this, a set of proposals were presented. The directorate serves, the most important of which is that the directorate under discussion must provide sites for throwing waste. Citizens can throw away construction and demolition waste when they are generated inside or outside the city. Likewise, those responsible for preparing the conditions for carrying out work at the Mosul Municipality Directorate must include the condition of using factory products in their projects, in order to create A market demand for the laboratory products under investigation and thus making it economically viable