FEHRLopedia

The literature analysis focuses on the collection of information about the basic guidelines concerning the potential of waste materials recycling in the European road sector. The work includes a thorough review of three “starting documents” considered as master pieces of literature in the subject (Recycling Strategies for Road Works by OCDE, Recycled Materials in European Highway Environments: Uses, Technologies and Policies by the American FHWA, and ALT-MAT: Alternative materials in Road Construction by a consortium partially funded by he EC). These three references have been crucial to reach an approximation to the state-of-the-art in the topic and the particular selection of the eleven most representative waste materials that are analysed in the report. The work in this preliminary part is completed with a review of documents published by a set of countries and organisations (CEN, Denmark, France,Germany, The Netherlands, Rilem, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States).