# Building materials and Waste and recycling

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

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/building-materials-and-waste-and-recycling/

[Building materials](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/building_materials/) (industry) and [Waste and recycling](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/waste_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.