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1. An intelligent model of green urban distribution in the blockchain environment

Author:
Yan Li; Ming K. Lim; Chao Wang
Source:
Resources, conservation, and recycling 2022 v.176 pp. 105925
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
algorithms; blockchain; carbon; industry; models; pollutants; pollution; psychological stress; supply balance
Abstract:
... Recently, with the deterioration of the environment, increasing companies choose horizontal cooperation to achieve the goal of reducing environmental pollution and cost in the urban distribution industry. However, companies worry that the business information is leaked in the process of horizontal cooperation. This kind of mistrust often leads to the failure of horizontal cooperation. The emergenc ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105925

2. Chinese Baijiu distiller's grains resourcing: Current progress and future prospects

Author:
Yizhou Liu; Shuangping Liu; Caihong Huang; Xiangyang Ge; Beidou Xi; Jian Mao
Source:
Resources, conservation, and recycling 2022 v.176 pp. 105900
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
biogas; energy; gas production (biological); livestock; solid wastes; water content
Abstract:
... Distiller's grains (DGS) as a typical organic solid waste in Chinese Baijiu production, with high water content, nutrient and various high-value components. Conventional waste management causes environmental issues and bioresource wasting. With the development of Chinese Baijiu companies, the demand for effective DGS treatment is urgent. There were various approaches for DGS resourcing, such as fe ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105900

3. Environmental and economic assessment of decentralized bioenergy and biorefinery networks treating urban biowaste

Author:
Elisavet Angouria-Tsorochidou; Dominika Alexa Teigiserova; Marianne Thomsen
Source:
Resources, conservation, and recycling 2022 v.176 pp. 105898
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
bioenergy; biorefining; carbon; citizen participation; decentralization; economic performance; economic sustainability; employment; energy; labor; life cycle assessment; management systems; markets; systems engineering; wastes
Abstract:
... The decentralization of waste management argues to support better planning, fair distribution of material and economic resources, and increased citizen participation. This study aims at assessing the environmental and economic performance of a decentralized biowaste management system, using the frameworks of life cycle assessment and net present value analysis. Five scenarios are designed to refle ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105898

4. Environmental assessments of scales: The effect of ex-ante and ex-post data on life cycle assessment of wood torrefaction

Author:
Georgios Archimidis Tsalidis; Gijsbert Korevaar
Source:
Resources, conservation, and recycling 2022 v.176 pp. 105906
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
acidification; case studies; energy; eutrophication; freshwater; life cycle assessment; particulates; torrefaction; wood
Abstract:
... Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a powerful tool for achieving sustainability. Traditional LCAs analyze well defined and developed industrial systems, but recent developments of LCA focus on analyzing emerging technologies which are not yet optimized with respect to energy and materials. Therefore, LCA results of ex-ante applications can be very different from ex-post applications for the same syste ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105906

5. Evaluating the transition to the circular economy in the agri-food sector: Selection of indicators

Author:
Stefano Poponi; Gabriella Arcese; Francesco Pacchera; Olimpia Martucci
Source:
Resources, conservation, and recycling 2022 v.176 pp. 105916
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
circular economy; decision making; food industry; sustainable development
Abstract:
... The agri-food sector is one of the key sectors where the action is needed to ensure the transition to a more sustainable development model in line with the principles of the circular economy (CE). The use of indicators to monitor progress and areas for action is a key element in the shift of companies, regions, and countries toward a circular model.This study aims to create a dashboard that can be ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105916

6. Forest carbon sink in the U.S. (1870–2012) driven by substitution of forest ecosystem service flows

Author:
Andreas Magerl; Sarah Matej; Lisa Kaufmann; Julia Le Noë; Karlheinz Erb; Simone Gingrich
Source:
Resources, conservation, and recycling 2022 v.176 pp. 105927
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
biomass; carbon; carbon sinks; climate change; deforestation; ecosystem services; energy flow; forest conservation; forest ecosystems; forests; fossil fuels; fuelwood; humans; livestock; net primary productivity; paper; pulp
Abstract:
... Understanding the dynamics behind forest transitions, i.e., shifts from deforestation to forest recovery, is crucial for forest conservation and climate-change mitigation i.e., carbon (C) sequestration. We investigated the drivers of the forest transition in the United States, which was characterized by forest thickening despite surges in industrial wood extraction. We employ the concepts of Human ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105927

7. From social interactions to private environmental behaviours: The case of consumer food waste

Author:
Simone Piras; Simone Righi; Marco Setti; Nazli Koseoglu; Matthew J. Grainger; Gavin B. Stewart; Matteo Vittuari
Source:
Resources, conservation, and recycling 2022 v.176 pp. 105952
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
adults; food waste; models; questionnaires; Italy
Abstract:
... Consumer food waste, like many environmental behaviours, takes place in private, and is not directly subject to social monitoring. Nevertheless, social interactions can affect private opinions and behaviours. This paper builds an agent-based model of interactions between consumers heterogeneous in their sociability, their initial opinions and behaviours related to food waste, and their willingness ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105952

8. How urbanization and ecological conditions affect urban diet-linked GHG emissions: New evidence from China

Author:
Xin Xiong; Lixiao Zhang; Yan Hao; Pengpeng Zhang; Zhimin Shi; Tingting Zhang
Source:
Resources, conservation, and recycling 2022 v.176 pp. 105903
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
Dietary Guidelines; climate; food consumption; greenhouse gases; meat consumption; models; nutrition surveys; urbanization; China
Abstract:
... Unprecedented urbanization is dramatically altering habitual food consumption in urban China, and consequently affecting diet-linked greenhouse gas emissions (DGHGEs). Building on the representative resident survey data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study analyzed urban food consumption profiles and related GHG emissions from a life cycle perspective. Moreover, a CATREG (Categor ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105903

9. Large inter-city inequality in consumption-based CO2 emissions for China's pearl river basin cities

Author:
Yukun Qian; Heran Zheng; Jing Meng; Yuli Shan; Ya Zhou; Dabo Guan
Source:
Resources, conservation, and recycling 2022 v.176 pp. 105923
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
basins; carbon; carbon dioxide; industry; infrastructure; inventories; river deltas; rivers; watersheds; China
Abstract:
... Cities are leading carbon mitigation but are heterogeneous in their mitigation policies due to different socioeconomic backgrounds. Given that cities are increasingly inextricably linked, formulating mitigation policies of different cities cannot be easily achieved without comprehensive carbon inventories, who taking the inter-city supply chains into account. The Pearl River Basin is one of the im ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105923

10. Linkage of impact pathways to cultural perspectives to account for multiple aspects of mineral resource use in life cycle assessment

Author:
Alexandre Charpentier Poncelet; Antoine Beylot; Philippe Loubet; Bertrand Laratte; Stéphanie Muller; Jacques Villeneuve; Guido Sonnemann
Source:
Resources, conservation, and recycling 2022 v.176 pp. 105912
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
resource management; risk; socioeconomics; stakeholders
Abstract:
... Important advances have been made to define the multiple impact pathways relating mineral resource use to the area of protection (AoP) natural resources in life cycle assessment (LCA). Yet, the link between stakeholders’ interests and the aspects relevant to resource use as addressed by existing impact assessment methods has so far only marginally been explored. This article proposes to go beyond ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105912

11. Mapping the postharvest life of imported fruits from packhouse to retail stores using physics-based digital twins

Author:
Kanaha Shoji; Seraina Schudel; Daniel Onwude; Chandrima Shrivastava; Thijs Defraeye
Source:
Resources, conservation, and recycling 2022 v.176 pp. 105914
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
cold chain; cucumbers; decision making; eggplants; freshness; fruit quality; fruits; raspberries; raw fruit; shelf life; stakeholders; strawberries; temperature; thermal stability; Spain; Switzerland
Abstract:
... Controlling the hygrothermal conditions around fresh fruit and vegetables is vital for their preservation. Therefore, cold chain stakeholders often measure temperature along the supply chain of fresh produce. However, the temperature is typically monitored only in one segment of the entire cold chain, namely from the supplier until the distribution center. Besides, such measured data are rarely us ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105914

12. Optimizing the bioplastic chemical building block with wastewater sludge as the feedstock using carbon-hydrogen-oxygen framework

Author:
Qi Hao Goh; Amr A. Farouk; IreneMei Leng Chew
Source:
Resources, conservation, and recycling 2022 v.176 pp. 105920
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
biodegradability; bioplastics; biorefining; commercialization; feedstocks; industrial symbiosis; models; pollution; polyhydroxyalkanoates; sludge; wastewater
Abstract:
... The ever-growing production of non-recyclable plastic products causes plastic pollution to be the one of most pressing environmental issues. The transition of petrochemical-based plastic with eco-friendly biodegradable plastic has become the promising solution to overcome the plastic pollution crisis. Recent research addressed the production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), which is a class of biop ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105920

13. Prospective material and substance flow analysis of the end-of-life phase of crystalline silicon-based PV modules

Author:
Gwenny Thomassen; Jo Dewulf; Steven Van Passel
Source:
Resources, conservation, and recycling 2022 v.176 pp. 105917
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
circular economy; economic costs; economic valuation; embodied energy; energy recovery; landfills; material flow analysis; waste incineration
Abstract:
... The approaching end-of life phase of early installed PV modules gave rise to a variety of potential end-of-life strategies, ranging from basic generic waste management strategies to advanced case-specific recycling options. However, no comprehensive assessment on the full range of technological possibilities is available and only limited attention was given to the material recovery rates of these ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105917

14. Recycling of multi-material multilayer plastic packaging: Current trends and future scenarios

Author:
Camila Távora de Mello Soares; Monica Ek; Emma Östmark; Mikael Gällstedt; Sigbritt Karlsson
Source:
Resources, conservation, and recycling 2022 v.176 pp. 105905
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
circular economy; feedstocks; shelf life; surveys; wastes
Abstract:
... Multi-material multilayer plastic packaging (MMPP) is widely applied in fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) combining functionalities of distinct materials. These packaging structures can enhance properties, such as resource-use efficiency and barrier performance leading to consequential benefits like a prolonged shelf-life. Nevertheless, they represent a challenge for existing recycling systems, co ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105905

15. Rice vs. Wheat: Does staple food consumption pattern affect food waste in Chinese university canteens?

Author:
Long Qian; Feng Li; Hongbo Liu; Lingen Wang; Breda McCarthy; Shaosheng Jin
Source:
Resources, conservation, and recycling 2022 v.176 pp. 105902
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
diet; food consumption; models; plate waste; rice; staple foods; wheat; China
Abstract:
... Emerging economies, particularly China, are likely to play a critical role in determining global food waste. The paper investigates plate waste from a staple food consumption pattern perspective by surveying 9,192 Chinese university students at the on-campus canteens in 29 provinces of mainland China. A significant finding is that diet culture is closely related to food waste. Southerners who cons ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105902

16. Synergies of green building retrofit strategies for improving sustainability and resilience via a building-scale food-energy-water nexus

Author:
Andrea Valencia; Wei Zhang; Lixing Gu; Ni-Bin Chang; Martin P. Wanielista
Source:
Resources, conservation, and recycling 2022 v.176 pp. 105939
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
carbon; carbon dioxide; carbon sequestration; dynamic models; energy; food security; irrigation; life cycle assessment; multi-criteria decision making; nitrogen; phosphorus; renewable energy sources; sorption; stormwater; stormwater management; symbiosis
Abstract:
... This study examines a green building retrofit plan through a system dynamics model (SDM) creating symbiosis embedded in a building-scale food-energy-water (FEW) nexus. An indicator approach was employed to exploit cross-domain seams via the use of carbon, water, and ecological footprints for sustainability, as well as food security and energy supply reliability ratio for resilience. The SDM was fo ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105939

17. Towards sustainable additive manufacturing: The need for awareness of particle and vapor releases during polymer recycling, making filament, and fused filament fabrication 3-D printing

Author:
Aleksandr B. Stefaniak; Lauren N. Bowers; Gabe Cottrell; Ergin Erdem; Alycia K. Knepp; Stephen B. Martin; Jack Pretty; Matthew G. Duling; Elizabeth D. Arnold; Zachary Wilson; Benjamin Krider; Alyson R. Fortner; Ryan F. LeBouf; M. Abbas Virji; Arif Sirinterlikci
Source:
Resources, conservation, and recycling 2022 v.176 pp. 105911
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
acetone; benzene; circular economy; ethylbenzene; feedstocks; formaldehyde; gas exchange; hygiene; lungs; manganese; mucus; polylactic acid; polypropylenes; polystyrenes; styrene; vapors; wastes
Abstract:
... Fused filament fabrication three-dimensional (FFF 3-D) printing is thought to be environmentally sustainable; however, significant amounts of waste can be generated from this technology. One way to improve its sustainability is via distributed recycling of plastics in homes, schools, and libraries to create feedstock filament for printing. Risks from exposures incurred during recycling and reuse o ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105911

18. A fine-resolution estimation of the biomass resource potential across China from 2020 to 2100

Author:
Yaoyu Nie; Jin Li; Can Wang; Guorui Huang; Jingying Fu; Shiyan Chang; Haoran Li; Shujie Ma; Le Yu; Xueqin Cui; Wenjia Cai
Source:
Resources, conservation, and recycling 2022 v.176 pp. 105944
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
bioenergy; biomass; carbon; climate change; data collection; humans; land use change; primary energy; temperature; China
Abstract:
... Large-scale development of bioenergy is indispensable in dealing with the climate change challenge. The biomass resource may become a limiting factor for the utilization of bioenergy in mitigating carbon emissions in the future. For supporting formulating a feasible long-term strategy for bioenergy development, it is crucial to conduct an ex-ante estimation of the biomass resource potential and ac ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105944

19. A novel synthesis of lightweight and high-strength green geopolymer foamed material by rice husk ash and ground-granulated blast-furnace slag

Author:
Guangwei Liang; Tiejun Liu; Haoxin Li; Biqin Dong; Tao Shi
Source:
Resources, conservation, and recycling 2022 v.176 pp. 105922
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
compression strength; husk ash; insulating materials; polymers; slags; thermal conductivity; thermal stability; weight loss
Abstract:
... This study reports the preparation and characterization of alkali-activated slag based geopolymer foamed material (GFM). The roles of rice husk ash (RHA) on thermal stability and thermal insulation of GFM were systematically investigated. Thanks to the low self-weight and good reactivity of RHA, the compressive strength and specific compressive strength of GFM are enhanced, promoting the lightweig ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105922

20. A review on characteristics of silico-manganese slag and its utilization into construction materials

Author:
Susanta Kumar Nath; Navneet Singh Randhawa; Sanjay Kumar
Source:
Resources, conservation, and recycling 2022 v.176 pp. 105946
ISSN:
0921-3449
Subject:
calcium oxide; cement; concrete; furnaces; gels; polymers; slags; solidification; steel
Abstract:
... This paper reviews the potential use of silico-manganese slag (SiMnS) as binder and aggregate in Portland cement and geopolymer concrete. SiMnS is a byproduct of alloy steel production. Depending on the process of solidification, the slag is available in crystalline hard stone type and granulated glassy form. The latter one is more reactive due to the presence of amorphous phases. Therefore, granu ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105946