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This paper analyses the social impact of liberalisation of plastic bottles in Malta, wherein the system of returnable glass bottles has effectively been replaced by a system of disposable plastic bottles. The paper applies concepts such as Ulrich Beck's (1992) 'risk society', and Michael...
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This study identifies, documents, and assesses the existing levels of awareness and implementation of sustainability …, designers, and contractors supplemented with four case studies illustrating the recycling of construction demolition waste (CDW … which were limited to green design efforts and uncoordinated attempts at recycling construction demolition materials. The …
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This paper contributes to the literature by examining evolution of voluntary environmentally sustainable practices (ESPs) in the US carpet industry. The case illustrates the importance of an integrated and multi-stakeholder industry group – Carpet America Recovery Effort – in supporting use...
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Recycling and remanufacturing activities are gaining in importance, as a growing population and economy use up and wear … 100 to 250 million such items each year. As discard volumes rise and as resource scarcity becomes more critical, recycling … these activities for economic development and sustainability, new methods of tracking their impacts must be developed. While …
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dough processed). However, recycling of bread waste is also exergetically efficient when the total fermented surplus is …
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An account is given in this paper of soft technology options which are non-polluting, less energy-intensive and inexpensive to establish. Our endeavor in what follows, has also been to spell out some guidelines and strategies which can easily be adopted for sustaining growth with equity using...
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In our paper, we analyse the prospects for sustainable growth offered by recycling promoting environmental policies … where the main objective of the government is to assure for sustainability in the sense of a non deteriorating state of the … these phenomena by modelling on the one hand recycling processes that decrease the flow of waste to the environment and …
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way to resolve this problem through reuse and recycling. …
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Recycling and remanufacturing activities are gaining in importance, as a growing population and economy use up and wear … 100 to 250 million such items each year. As discard volumes rise and as resource scarcity becomes more critical, recycling … these activities for economic development and sustainability, new methods of tracking their impacts must be developed. While …
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