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As the economic development and urbanization is increasing it is putting a lot of pressure on the construction sector which increases the demand for construction materials and in turn results into huge amount of construction waste. The waste so generated impacts the natural and urban environment in multiple ways, it causes economic impact in terms of the cost that the producers needs to borne in terms of disposing off the waste, if the proper hierarchy of waste management is not being followed and also the natural resources are scarce in nature which also increases the cost of the inputs used in the construction sector which can be reduced if we switch to better and cost efficient inputs being produced by the recycled products out of the waste. It also leads to social and environment impact in terms of the Huge heaps of waste that are being dumped into the landfill. This has led to water logging during rains, traffic congestion, scarcity of landfills which puts another burden on the government as they have to hunt for land for the purpose of dumping which adds on to the cost.
The purpose of the study is to choose the best option, based upon the results of economic, environment and legal impacts of the C&D Waste plant, which would be based upon the cross-country analysis results. For the purpose of the study two countries has been chosen, based upon the maximum percentage of waste they are able to recycle out of the C&D debris, namely Netherlands and Germany. The benchmark so built was checked against India to find the gaps prevailing in India in terms of C&D waste and then, suggestions has been provided to close the loop i.e., converting the linear model of consumption into circular model of consumption in order to boil down to conclusion that reusing /recycling the waste is the most lucrative option.
Key Words: C&D Waste, waste management, hierarchy in waste management, construction sector, construction and demolition, circular economy in C&D waste, linear model of consumption.
