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From landfill to water, land and life: The creation of the Centre for stone materials aimed at secondary processing

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  • Careddu, Nicola
  • Siotto, Giampaolo
  • Siotto, Riccardo
  • Tilocca, Caterina

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This paper focuses on the creation of a Centre for the recycling of stone materials. The Centre will be able to offer a range of activities amongst which is the improvement of the production chain of the Orosei Marble district in Sardinia, Italy. Several companies operate within the marble producing area, specializing in both quarrying and stone processing. They have formed a Consortium in order to rehabilitate an area of more than 17ha. The restoration will be carried out through an environmentally sustainable procedure. The area was previously used as a landfill for waste deriving from marble quarrying and processing. At that time unshaped blocks of various sizes (which are unsuitable to block-cutter sawing), waste deriving from both block sawing and slab/strip cutting (such as broken slabs, strips, tiles) and microfine dust from filter presses of water treatment plants were representing an environmental problem. The local administration was struggling to find new areas which could be used for landfills, resulting in an additional cost for the landfill, ultimately affecting the variable production costs. The project involves the building of a venue to be used for temporary storage, treatment of wastes produced by both quarrying and primary processing, in order to make them suitable as secondary raw materials. The project also deals with the catch basin hydrology of the area involved in the project, the building of a multifunctional centre, the landscaping and other environmental features such as vehicle traffic and slopes greening.

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  • Careddu, Nicola & Siotto, Giampaolo & Siotto, Riccardo & Tilocca, Caterina, 2013. "From landfill to water, land and life: The creation of the Centre for stone materials aimed at secondary processing," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 38(3), pages 258-265.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jrpoli:v:38:y:2013:i:3:p:258-265
    DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2013.05.001
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    1. Careddu, Nicola & Siotto, Giampaolo, 2011. "Promoting ecological sustainable planning for natural stone quarrying. The case of the Orosei Marble Producing Area in Eastern Sardinia," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 36(4), pages 304-314.
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    2. Careddu, Nicola & Siotto, Giampaolo & Marras, Graziella, 2017. "The crisis of granite and the success of marble: errors and market strategies. The Sardinian case," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 52(C), pages 273-276.
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    4. Elkarmoty, Mohamed & Bonduà, Stefano & Bruno, Roberto, 2020. "A 3D brute-force algorithm for the optimum cutting pattern of dimension stone quarries," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 68(C).
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    9. Elkarmoty, Mohamed & Bonduà, Stefano & Bruno, Roberto, 2020. "A 3D optimization algorithm for sustainable cutting of slabs from ornamental stone blocks," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 65(C).
    10. Marras, Graziella & Careddu, Nicola, 2018. "Sustainable reuse of marble sludge in tyre mixtures," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 59(C), pages 77-84.
    11. Macedo, Dione & Mori Junior, Renzo & Pimentel Mizusaki, Ana Maria, 2017. "Sustainability strategies for dimension stones industry based on Northwest region of Espírito Santo State, Brazil," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 52(C), pages 207-216.
    12. Careddu, Nicola, 2019. "Dimension stones in the circular economy world," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 60(C), pages 243-245.
    13. Luís Sousa & José Lourenço & Dolores Pereira, 2019. "Suitable Re-Use of Abandoned Quarries for Restoration and Conservation of the Old City of Salamanca—World Heritage Site," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(16), pages 1-14, August.

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    Keywords

    Q01; Q32; Limestone; Dimension stone; Secondary raw materials; Logistic;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development
    • Q32 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation - - - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development

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