Shevchenko, Tetiana Saidani, Michael Danko, Yuriy Golysheva, Ievgeniia Chovancová, Jana Vavrek, Roman
Efficient electronic waste (e-waste) management is one of the vital strategies to save materials, including critical minerals and precious metals with limited global reserves. The e-waste collection issue has gained increasing attention in recent years, especially in developing countries, due to low collection rates. This study aims to search for p...
Gorrasi, Giuliana Sorrentino, Andrea Lichtfouse, Eric
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Environmental Chemistry Letters
Athira, Gopinath Bahurudeen, Abdulsalam Vishnu, Vijaya Sukumar
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Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
As stated in the European Commission's waste framework directive, the geographic proximity of wastes to the potential recovery/disposal site is of paramount importance in attaining an effective resource recycling paradigm. The global interest in achieving an end-of-waste scenario encourages the recovery of useful products/secondary raw materials fr...
Möllnitz, Selina Feuchter, Michael Duretek, Ivica Schmidt, Gerald Pomberger, Roland Sarc, Renato
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Polymers
To achieve future recycling targets and CO2 and waste reduction, the transfer of plastic contained in mixed waste from thermal recovery to mechanical recycling is a promising option. This requires extensive knowledge of the necessary processing depth of mixed wastes to enrich plastics and their processability in polymer processing machines. Also, t...
Klammsteiner, Thomas Walter, Andreas Bogataj, Tajda Heussler, Carina D. Stres, Blaž Steiner, Florian M. Schlick-Steiner, Birgit C. Insam, Heribert
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Frontiers in Microbiology
Canteens represent an essential food supply hub for educational institutions, companies, and business parks. Many people in these locations rely on a guaranteed service with consistent quality. It is an ongoing challenge to satisfy the demand for sufficient serving numbers, portion sizes, and menu variations to cover food intolerances and different...
Kazanskaya, Liliya F. Smirnova, Olga M. Palomo, Ángel Menendez Pidal, Ignacio Romana, Manuel
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Materials
The physical and mechanical characteristics of expanded-clay lightweight concrete based on a supersulfated binder in comparison with lightweight concrete based on ordinary Portland cement were studied. In replacing CEM 32.5 with a supersulfated binder of 6000 cm2/g specific surface, one can increase the tensile strength in bending up to 20% and can...
Bednárik, Jaroslav Augustínová, Natália
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SHS Web of Conferences
Research background: The essence of corporate social responsibility is not new, but its form has changed over the years, as has changed the view on whether it is possible and beneficial to put this idea into practice. CSR concerns economics, corporate management, business ethics, sociology, political science, environmental sciences and many other d...
Kafel, Piotr Nowicki, Paweł Wojnarowska, Magdalena
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SHS Web of Conferences
Research background: Food production is more and more globalized concerning not only the suppliers of food ingredients and producers but also considering the packaging trends and solutions available on the market. In opposition to that trend the EU high quality food products schemes were implemented such as organic farming products or traditional a...
Bundzíková, Renáta Jánošová, Denisa
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SHS Web of Conferences
Research background: In today’s globalized world, tourism is considered to be one of the fastest-growing sectors in the field of service. Tourism continuously adapts to various new activities, trends, markets and technologies. Tourism is affected by several factors - mainly globalization trends, consumers and economic gain. Regional development exp...
Wojnarowska, Magdalena Sołtysik, Mariusz Guzik, Maciej
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SHS Web of Conferences
Research background: The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development obliges individual countries to take actions aimed at achieving the seventeen goals of sustainable development. One of the tasks is to transform the economy into a circular economy. The necessity of transformation results from the growing number of manufactured product...