Use and Refurbishment

The latter could be implemented by requiring delay times after application for a building demolition permit. Economic instruments for this phase would include increasing the cost of disposal of demolition waste and providing incentives, perhaps in the form of subsidies, for entities that set up deconstruction, recycling, and/or materials reuse businesses. Information instruments could include Eco-Labelling schemes that have as one of their criteria the ability to disassemble products into recyclable materials. 

Bringezu in Construction Ecology and Metabolism Nature as the Basis for Green Buildings, Eds., C. Kibert, J. Sendzimir and G. Guy, EE Spon, Ltd., 

Kibert in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Sustainable Construction, Tampa, FL, USA, 1994, p.1-9. 

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