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Yeng-Fong Shih, Chun-Wei Chang, Teng-Hsiang Hsu and Wei-Yi Dai
Wood?plastic composites (WPCs), abbreviated as WPCs, are typically composite materials made by mixing wood flour and thermoplastic resins, and then shaped through processes such as extrusion or compression. They have emerged as a viable and advanced alte...
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Yi-Ming Zhang, Peter Brimblecombe and Chon-Lin Lee
Microplastics are a major environmental issue. In marine systems, these break down into small fragments that may lodge within organisms, but they behave as vectors for chemicals when pollutants such as metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), pes...
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Xiaobiao Xu, Eric P. Chassignet, Philippe Miron and Olmo Zavala-Romero
The persistent increase in marine plastic litter has become a major global concern, with one of the highest plastic concentrations in the world?s oceans found in the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR). In this study, we use marine plastic litter tracking simul...
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Miguel A. Franesqui, Jorge Yepes and Samuel Valencia-Díaz
Low-energy asphalt techniques, such as warm mix asphalt (WMA), combined with the rational consumption of geomaterials and waste recycling would promote more sustainable and energy-efficient asphalt pavements. In volcanic environments, a significant propo...
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Jaroslav Pokorný, Lucie Zárybnická, Radek ?evcík and Lubo? Podolka
Plastics represent an integral part of our everyday lives, with various functions from packaging materials to insulation layers in our buildings. Pure expanded polystyrene (EPS) is a good example of a fully recyclable material. However, once polluted wit...
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Maria P. C. Volpi, Jean C. G. Silva, Andreas Hornung and Miloud Ouadi
This scientific paper provides an overview of the current state of pyrolysis in Europe, with a focus on mapping the key research areas and technologies employed. This research relied on search equations that centered on the utilization of biomass and pla...
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Nikolay S. Ivanov, Arlan Z. Abilmagzhanov, Oleg S. Kholkin and Iskander E. Adelbaev
This article presents the results of the study of the morphological composition of municipal solid waste (MSW) from the landfill of Atyrau city, and the waste?s energy characteristics and presence of microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi and viruses....
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Xiaoqing Cao, Lu Li, Fengwei Zhang, Fangyuan Zhang, Xuefeng Song, Wuyun Zhao and Fei Dai
Livestock dung, discarded crop straws, and residual plastic film are the primary agricultural non-point sources of pollution. For livestock dung and discarded crop straw, the general treatment focuses on compost, animal fodder, industrial raw material, a...
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Sixu Liu, Jianfei Xu, Nan Zhou, Yuzhe Zhang, Chaowei Dong and Zhuo Lv
The mining of coal resources is accompanied by a large amount of solid waste such as gangue, which seriously affects the ecological environment. The gangue grouting backfilling technique can achieve the dual goals of gangue disposal and surface deformati...
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Katie Conlon
This study uses a qualitative approach to address limitations and blockages to current plastics reduction via semi-structured interviews with zero waste business practitioners in India. Although they are nascent, India is home to a budding zero waste com...
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