Salemdeeb, Ramy Al-Tabbaa, Abir Reynolds, Christian
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Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
In order to achieve a circular economy, there must be a greater understanding of the links between economic activity and waste generation. This study introduces the first version of the UK waste input-output table that could be used to quantify both direct and indirect waste arisings across the supply chain. The proposed waste input-output table fe...
Scheinberg, Anne Nesić, Jelena Savain, Rachel Luppi, Pietro Sinnott, Portia Petean, Flaviu Pop, Flaviu
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Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
The European Union hosts some of the world's most developed waste management systems and an ambitious policy commitment to the circular economy. The existence of informal recycling and re-use activities in Europe has been vigorously denied until quite recently, and remains a very challenging subject for the European solid waste management sector, a...
Cappuyns, Valérie; 37340; Stough, Talia; 75087;
On December 2nd, 2015 the European Commission published a new Circular Economy Package to stimulate Europe's transition towards a circular economy, aimed at boosting global competitiveness, fostering sustainable economic growth, decreasing carbon emissions, and generating 580,000 new jobs. The engineers educated today will be key role players in th...
Christmann, Patrice
“Equitable’’ means “dealing fairly and equally with all concerned” [1]. The concerned parties are all current and future stakeholders related to natural resources use, which means not only those diretcly involved in breeding, harvesting or extractive activities, but every human on Earth, as the ways natural resources are used have far reaching impl...
Gao, Y. (author)
Circular economy is an economic model aiming at decoupling economic growth from the consumption of finite resources. It attracts attention to system changes at all levels, and Taoyuan City Government devotes itself to the circular economy development as well. Nevertheless, the Taoyuan environmental protection park, with the early ambition of develo...
Laso, J Margallo, M Celaya, J Fullana, P Bala, A Gazulla, C Irabien, A Aldaco, R
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Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
The anchovy canning industry has high importance in the Cantabria Region (North Spain) from economic, social and touristic points of view. The Cantabrian canned anchovy is world-renowned owing to its handmade and traditional manufacture. The canning process generates huge amounts of several food wastes, whose suitable management can contribute to b...
Archimède, Harry
La recherche de la souveraineté alimentaire impacte fortement l’utilisation des terres. Cependant les surfaces à consacrer à la production de vivres varient avec les choix de consommation des populations et les stratégies agricoles. La production de protéines animales est forte consommatrice de terres et ce constat a contraint l’homme à s’interroge...
van Buren, Nicole Demmers, Marjolein van der Heijden, Rob Witlox, Frank
While there is great potential in the chief values and prospects of a circular economy, this alone will not bring the circular economy to market or scale. In order for a circular economy to materialize, an integrated approach that focuses on a long-term system change or transition is required. To set the change process in motion, many (public and p...
Beulque, Rémi Aggeri, Franck
Design and implementation of new disruptive circular business models are key issues for a growing number of companies. We propose in this article a detailed empirical study. It is based on a dozen of cases studies of established firms, which currently experience such innovation processes. Most of them are European or global leaders, who sought to a...
Tseggai, S. (author)
A wastewater treatment plant is redesigned as an ‘infinite mine’, from which the residues are used for a structural composite. The goal of the project was to make a construction material of uniform and consistent biomass waste streams, giving an impulse to reindustrializing Parkstad Limburg, former coal mining area in the south of the Netherlands. ...
