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Ali Ghahremani, Scott D. Adams, Michael Norton, Sui Yang Khoo and Abbas Z. Kouzani
Solar panels are an environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuels; however, their useful life is limited to approximately 25 years, after which they become a waste management issue. Proper management and recycling of end-of-life (EOL) solar panels...
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Babak Nemat, Mohammad Razzaghi, Kim Bolton and Kamran Rousta
It is widely acknowledged that environmental impacts from packaging waste depend on how consumers sort this waste fraction. In this research, ?design for sustainable behavior? (DfSB) strategies are used to improve a cream packaging design that can suppor...
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Quy Van Khuc, Thao Dang, Mai Tran, Dinh Tien Nguyen, Thuy Nguyen, Phu Pham and Trung Tran
As one of the world?s fastest-growing economies, Vietnam is tackling environmental pollution, particularly plastic waste. This study contributes to the literature on environmental culture and practical solutions by better understanding households? behavi...
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Shengping Wen, Yue Yuan and Jingfu Chen
The preliminary sorting of plastic products is a necessary step to improve the utilization of waste resources. To improve the quality and efficiency of sorting, a plastic detection scheme based on deep learning is proposed in this paper for a waste plast...
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Jan Kortmann and Stefan Minar
Fibre-reinforced composites are used in many industries. In the construction industry, for example, the building material carbon concrete is increasingly being used successfully. Although the demand for fibre-reinforced composites and fibre-reinforced pl...
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Mithila Farjana, Abu Bakar Fahad, Syed Eftasum Alam and Md. Motaharul Islam
IoT-based smart e-waste management is an emerging field that combines technology and environmental sustainability. E-waste is a growing problem worldwide, as discarded electronics can have negative impacts on the environment and public health. In this pa...
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Qiao Liu, Qianhui Xu, Xin Shen, Bowei Chen and Sonia Sadeghian Esfahani
Economic growth and rapid urbanization have resulted in various urban issues related to sustainable development in emerging economies such as China. Nowadays, two-thirds of China?s cities are besieged by waste and one-fourth of the cities have no space t...
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Hiroshi Asakura
Plastic waste?s near-permanent pollution of the natural environment is becoming an increasing concern. It is necessary to determine the amount of microplastics (MPs) present in the natural environment and reduce the amount of plastic waste. In this study...
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Ann T. W. Yu, Irene Wong, Zezhou Wu and Chi-Sun Poon
Hong Kong is a densely populated city with high-rise developments, and as in other metropolitan cities, the amount of waste generated from construction projects in the city is increasing annually. The capacity of existing landfills is expected to be satu...
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Yi-Bo Li, Hong-Bao Sang, Xiang Xiong and Yu-Rou Li
This paper proposes the hybrid adaptive genetic algorithm (HAGA) as an improved method for solving the NP-hard two-dimensional rectangular packing problem to maximize the filling rate of a rectangular sheet. The packing sequence and rotation state are en...
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