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Dumping these wastes in sanitary landfills has always been the traditional approach to waste management but this will not be feasible in the years to come. To significantly reduce or eliminate the amount of CDW being dumped, circular economy is a possible solution to the increasing amounts of CDW. Circular economy is an economic system based on business models which replaces the end-of-life concept with reducing, reusing, recycling, and recovering materials. This paper discusses circular economy (CE) frameworks\u2014specifically material recovery and production highlighting the reuse and recycling of CDW and reprocessing into new construction applications. Likewise, a literature review into recent studies of reuse and recycling of CDW and its feasibility is also discussed to possibly prove the effectivity of CE in reducing CDW. Findings such as effectivity of recycling CDW into new construction applications and its limitations in effective usage are discussed and research gaps such as reuse of construction materials are also undertaken. CE and recycling were also found to be emerging topics. Observed trends in published articles as well as the use of latent Dirichlet allocation in creating topic models have shown a rising awareness and increasing research in CE which focuses on recycling and reusing CDW.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ma13132970","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,3]],"date-time":"2020-07-03T06:51:20Z","timestamp":1593759080000},"page":"2970","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":279,"title":["Circular Economy on Construction and Demolition Waste: A Literature Review on Material Recovery and Production"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2468-7914","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Clarence P.","family":"Ginga","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, De La Salle University Manila, 2401 Taft Avenue, Malate Manila 0922, Philippines"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3998-1806","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jason Maximino C.","family":"Ongpeng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, De La Salle University Manila, 2401 Taft Avenue, Malate Manila 0922, Philippines"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ma. 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