“…On the other hand, there are also several studies dealing with recycling and reuse of industrial wastes as alternative raw materials in porcelain tile manufacturing (Awaad et al, 2015;Novais et al, 2015;Serra et al, 2015), but they focused on the ceramic processing and evaluation of the resulting mechanical properties (Andreola et al, 2016;Gouvêa et al, 2015;Kim et al, 2015;Novais et al, 2015).…”