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Building materials and Waste and recycling

Building materials buys from Waste and recycling; building materials depends on waste and recycling.

Building materials (industry) and Waste and recycling (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹1 per ₹100 · Building materials buys from Waste and recycling

Building materials buys goods or services from Waste and recycling; counted through every round of supply, ₹1 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹1 of every ₹100 of Building materials output, all rounds
  • ₹0.4 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Waste and recycling → Building materials

2 of the enterprise types in Building materials depend on waste and recycling.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Fly ash, slag and gypsum suppliers: industrial by-product reuse (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Integrated cement producers and grinding units: refuse-derived fuel (criticality 3 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.