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About the project:

RUB2RES is a PRIN Italian project that aims to lay down comprehensive guidelines for improving the management and exploitation of Construction & Demolition Waste (C&DW), developing innovative and sustainable products and sorting processes, readily transferable to industry. The project deals with post-earthquake C&DW collected from Marche-Abruzzo and Emilia-Romagna (Italy), as a challenging case study for the management and recovery of an extremely heterogeneous and potentially hazardous mineral composite. These three regions had been striken by severe earthquake respectively in 2016 (Marche-Abruzzo) and 2012 (Emilia-Romagna).

In the current industrial practice, the mineral fractions are commonly crushed, sorted (sieved) and stocked as a function of grain-size ranges, irrespective of their material attributes. However, C&DW are heterogeneous mixtures of solid particles with variable chemistry, mineralogy, and texture, as well as distinct colour, density, tenacity, etc. This heterogeneity is even more cogent for earthquake-derived C&DW, being a function of the geographic provenance and related geological, architectural, and historical features.