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Joint environmental policy making and sustainable practices for the cardboard production: Case study: Smurfit Kappa
Carpio-Aguilar, Jorge Carlos; Franco-García, María-Laura - In: Management Research Review 36 (2013) 12, pp. 1220-1237
federal, governmental and business actors led to different recycling performances within the same company? Design … ranked high for the Dutch packaging-chain agreements with a visible impact in SK's recycling rates. SK in Austria and in … Denmark, in this order, had a lower implementation level of JEPs which could be reflected in a lower recycling performance …
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Social norms, morals and self-interest as determinants of pro-environment behaviour
Czajkowski, Mikołaj; Hanley, Nick; Nyborg, Karine - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2014
household waste contracts and recycling actions in Poland. A theoretical model is used to show how cost-based motives and the … desire for a positive self- and social image combine to determine the utility from alternative choices of recycling behaviour … policies aimed at improving participation in recycling schemes. …
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An introduction to the economics of rare earths
Bartekova E. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
The aim of this paper is to examine the supply risk of rare earths and its impact on low carbon technologies deployment. Bringing together seemingly disconnected strands of scientific literature, this multidisciplinary approach allows to provide an overarching overview of the economics of rare...
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LCAs of a polycrystalline photovoltaic module and a wind turbine
Zhong, Z.W.; Song, B.; Loh, P.E. - In: Renewable Energy 36 (2011) 8, pp. 2227-2237
the life cycle assessment (LCA) method. This study models landfill disposal and recycling scenarios of the decommissioned … can become a major contributor to the environmental impacts, depending on disposal scenarios. Recycling is an …-of-life recycling scenario for a wind turbine has a significant part on the environmental impacts and should not be ignored. However …
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Chemical treatment of crystalline silicon solar cells as a method of recovering pure silicon from photovoltaic modules
Klugmann-Radziemska, Ewa; Ostrowski, Piotr - In: Renewable Energy 35 (2010) 8, pp. 1751-1759
Photovoltaic technology is used worldwide to provide reliable and cost-effective electricity for industrial, commercial, residential and community applications. The average lifetime of PV modules can be expected to be more than 25 years. The disposal of PV systems will become a problem in view...
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Estudios de caso del servicio de recolección para generadores grandes de basura y del sistema de reciclaje sostenible de botellas de PET en Río de Janeiro, Brasil: Resumen ejecutiv...
Leite, Luiz Edmundo Costa; Monteiro, José Henrique Penido - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003
El objetivo de la presentación de este estudio de caso es difundir la exitosa experiencia realizada por la municipalidad de Río de Janeiro en su búsqueda por perfeccionar los servicios de aseo urbano a través del concurso de operadores privados, al mismo tiempo que se alcanza una...
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Polymer Recovery from Auto Shredder Residue by Projectile Separation Method
Lee, Jason J. S.; Mo, John P. T.; Wu, Dong Yang - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 4, pp. 643-655
reviews existing polymer recycling techniques for End-of-Life Vehicles (ELVs) and proposes a more efficient electrostatic …
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Recycling of waste and downgrading of secondary resources in a classical type of production model
Hosoda, Eiji - In: Mind and Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and … 1 (2012) 1, pp. 1-22
This paper analyses recycling of waste and downgrading of secondary resources using a classical type of production … recycling of waste are negatively or positively priced, depending upon technological conditions and income distribution. In …
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Waste management efficiency at UK airports
Pitt, Michael; Smith, Andrew - In: Journal of Air Transport Management 9 (2003) 2, pp. 103-111
The aviation industry has a reputation for being a major polluter. Using primary data obtained directly from BAA this paper examines the ways in which BAA (formerly the British Airports Authority) has improved efficiency in the management of airport waste. The paper also considers why, despite...
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STUDY ON PACKAGING WASTE PREVENTION IN ROMANIA
Lucia-Monica, Scortar - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2013) 1, pp. 1404-1413
a society of recycling and recovery, meaning to climb the hierarchical scale, moving from landfill to recycling and …
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