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Martine J. Barons, Lael E. Walsh, Edward E. Salakpi and Linda Nichols
The EU Green Deal requires the reduction in pesticides and fertilisers in food crop production, whilst the sustainable development goals require reductions in food loss and food waste. In a complex and interacting system like the food system, these goals...
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Fraser King, Miroslav Kolàr, Scott Briggs, Mehran Behazin, Peter Keech and Nikitas Diomidis
The disposal of high-level radioactive waste (HLW) and spent nuclear fuel (SF) presents a unique challenge for the prediction of the long-term performance of corrodible structures since HLW/SF containers are expected, in some cases, to have lifetimes of ...
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Waleed Sulaiman Mustafa, János Szendefy and Balázs Nagy
The use of glass waste in the construction industry has a high potential of leading to a higher recycling percentage. Foam glass aggregate (FGA) is around 98% recycled glass waste of various origins and has good insulation properties with big grain size ...
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Shovona Khusru, David P. Thambiratnam, Mohamed Elchalakani and Sabrina Fawzia
Rubberised concrete has emerged as a material of interest to the research community with the mission of creating sustainable structural members and decreasing the burden of waste tyre rubber. The potential benefits of replacing natural aggregates with ru...
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Ana-Maria Urian, Nicoleta-Maria Ilies, Ovidiu Nemes and Andor-Csongor Nagy
Population expansion and the development of technology have led to an increase in construction activities. In many cases, foundation grounds do not have a high enough bearing capacity and are not capable of ensuring the safe exploitation of the construct...
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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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William Hurst, Kwabena Ebo Bennin, Ben Kotze and Tonderayi Mangara
By 2050, according to the UN medium forecast, 68.6% of the world?s population will live in cities. This growth will place a strain on critical infrastructure distribution networks, which already operate in a state that is complex and intertwined within s...
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Ali Ashrafian, Naser Safaeian Hamzehkolaei, Ngakan Ketut Acwin Dwijendra and Maziar Yazdani
There has been a significant increase in construction and demolition (C&D) waste due to the growth of cities and the need for new construction, raising concerns about the impact on the environment of these wastes. By utilising recycled C&D waste,...
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Yuming Guo, Jixiong Zhang, Meng Li, Wendy Timms, Lingling Shen and Pengjie Li
Coal mine waste rocks, mainly broken gangue, can be used as filling materials to backfill into goafs. Under the overburden load, the backfill body is vulnerable to compressive deformation and particle breakage. With the increase in mining depth, the over...
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Xianbo Zhao
Construction and demolition (C&D) activities generate a large amount of waste and have significant impacts on the environment. Thus, it is necessary to implement C&D waste management (WM), which requires the involvement of stakeholders and is inf...
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