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Sustainability, Volume 13, Issue 12

June-2 2021 - 474 articles

Cover Story: Commercially available bio-based products are labelled as biodegradable, and, given the priorities in the waste management hierarchy, they should be collected with biowaste and biologically treated. For end-of-life scenarios, it is essential to provide as much information as possible to create a database on the biodegradability of these products and the timeframe for their biodegradation. To this end, a one-year mesophilic anaerobic degradation test of bio-based products was conducted. Despite their high content of organic matter, the bio-based materials produced only small amounts of biogas. The structure of the bio-based foils started to show damage, and individual cracks and fissures revealed that, after one year of the process, the foils were only in the initial phase of degradation. This information may be useful for assessing regulations for the management of bio-based materials. View this paper
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Articles (474)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,379 Views
13 Pages

Economic Value of Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts at Incheon Airport, South Korea

  • In-Gyum Kim,
  • Hye-Min Kim,
  • Dae-Geun Lee,
  • Byunghwan Lim and
  • Hee-Choon Lee

21 June 2021

Meteorological information at an arrival airport is one of the primary variables used to determine refueling of discretionary fuel. This study evaluated the economic value of terminal aerodrome forecasts (TAF), which has not been previously quantitat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,522 Views
17 Pages

21 June 2021

Recycling can benefit our community and the environment to a considerable degree through the link between collection and processing. Governments and companies make substantive efforts to develop effective communication strategies that encourage peopl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
3,772 Views
19 Pages

Spatial Distribution and Evaluation of Arsenic and Zinc Content in the Soil of a Karst Landscape

  • Dimitrios E. Alexakis,
  • George D. Bathrellos,
  • Hariklia D. Skilodimou and
  • Dimitra E. Gamvroula

21 June 2021

Karst features such as polje are highly vulnerable to natural and anthropogenic pollution. The main objectives of this study were to investigate the soil quality in the Ioannina polje (north-west Greece) concerning arsenic (As) and zinc (Zn), and del...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,581 Views
17 Pages

Leasing as an Alternative Form of Financing within Family Businesses: The Important Advisory Role of the Accountant

  • Anneleen Michiels,
  • Jelle Schepers,
  • Pieter Vandekerkhof and
  • Alessandro Cirillo

21 June 2021

Although leasing can be an interesting financing option from an economic point of view, family businesses are found to be less prone to lease. In this study, we examine the view of the external accountant on leasing as an alternative form of financin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
8,638 Views
18 Pages

21 June 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused incredible impacts on people’s travel behavior. Recent studies suggest that while the demand for public transport has decreased due to passengers’ inability to maintain physical distance inside this mode, the demand f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,355 Views
30 Pages

Energy-Investment Decision-Making for Industry: Quantitative and Qualitative Risks Integrated Analysis

  • Eva M. Urbano,
  • Victor Martinez-Viol,
  • Konstantinos Kampouropoulos and
  • Luis Romeral

21 June 2021

Industrial SMEs may take the decision to invest in energy efficient equipment to reduce energy costs by replacing or upgrading their obsolete equipment or due to external socio-political and legislative pressures. When upgrading their energy equipmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,056 Views
17 Pages

21 June 2021

The generational change in the family business opens up expectations of strategies such as sustainability, professionalisation and internationalisation. Yet, there are gaps in current literature which fail to explain whether there are benefits in suc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,329 Views
12 Pages

Motivational Differences between 5K Runners, Marathoners and Ultramarathoners in Poland

  • Mateusz Rozmiarek,
  • Ewa Malchrowicz-Mośko,
  • Patxi León-Guereño,
  • Miguel Ángel Tapia-Serrano and
  • Grzegorz Kwiatkowski

21 June 2021

The aim of the study was to determine the reasons for practicing different running distances (5K run, marathon, and ultramarathon), and to analyze the differences in each type according to gender, age, and marital status. An empirical study was condu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,865 Views
21 Pages

Inventory of Locations of Old Mining Works Using LiDAR Data: A Case Study in Slovakia

  • Marcela Bindzarova Gergelova,
  • Slavomir Labant,
  • Jozef Mizak,
  • Pavel Sustek and
  • Lubomir Leicher

21 June 2021

The concept of further sustainable development in the area of administration of the register of old mining works and recent mining works in Slovakia requires precise determination of the locations of the objects that constitute it. The objects in thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,200 Views
26 Pages

20 June 2021

This study evaluates people’s preferences regarding the proximity of their residence to agricultural urban green infrastructure (UGI), such as agricultural land and satoyama, and discusses the availability of these types of land as UGI. UGI is vital...

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