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Sustainability, Volume 15, Issue 14

July-2 2023 - 731 articles

Cover Story:

Advancements in technology have led to the increased production of waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). Plastic, which is becoming more and more relevant for recovery or material recycling systems, is one of the most common materials found in WEEE.

The use of expensive and complex equipment in the recycling sector is problematic due to technical, environmental, and financial factors. Efficient and cost-effective solutions for material characterization, quality control, and sorting applications are needed. The use of Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI)-based sensors working in the Short-Wave InfraRed (SWIR) spectral range represent a viable solution to this challenge. This study presents a methodological approach using SWIR-HSI techniques for sorting and quality control applications of various plastic streams from WEEE. View this paper

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Articles (731)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,865 Views
20 Pages

24 July 2023

An innovative and integrated scheme that encompasses two well-established waste treatment technologies, the aerobic biological degradation of organic matter bioprocess via membranes and anaerobic digestion, was demonstrated as a zero-waste approach t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,750 Views
23 Pages

24 July 2023

In the contemporary world, the swift advancement of urbanization, the pressing need for environmental conservation, and humanity’s unyielding quest for a better quality of life have jointly underscored the escalating importance of research on l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,271 Views
26 Pages

24 July 2023

Sustainability issues have been highly impacted during the pandemic period, and issues of sustainability are receiving increasing attention and have been embedded in tourism and hospitality management. To follow customer changes and sustainability re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,253 Views
20 Pages

The Importance of Investing in the Energy Refurbishment of Hospitals: Results of a Case Study in a Mediterranean Climate

  • Rosa Francesca De Masi,
  • Nicoletta Del Regno,
  • Antonio Gigante,
  • Silvia Ruggiero,
  • Alessandro Russo,
  • Francesco Tariello and
  • Giuseppe Peter Vanoli

24 July 2023

Because of the social importance of hospitals, characterized by energy-intensive users, large-scale refurbishment projects for these types of buildings are required. With the aim of helping researchers and designers, this paper proposes a multistage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,444 Views
14 Pages

24 July 2023

This article describes China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a quasi-natural experiment based on samples from the World Bank database, China Customs database, and China Industrial Enterprise Database from 2000 to 2007 and use...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,075 Views
20 Pages

Energy Consumption and Carbon Emissions of Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings in Hot Summer and Cold Winter Zones of China

  • Zikang Ke,
  • Xiaoxin Liu,
  • Hui Zhang,
  • Xueying Jia,
  • Wei Zeng,
  • Junle Yan,
  • Hao Hu and
  • Wong Nyuk Hien

24 July 2023

Issues of energy efficiency and sustainability in buildings are gaining increasing attention in the context of the “3060” dual-carbon initiative. In recent years, nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEBs) have emerged as a potentially viable s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,906 Views
30 Pages

24 July 2023

This research aimed to develop a comprehensive model for the sustainable development of creative industries in Iran through digital transformation and interpretive structural modeling. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 experts to extr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
2,848 Views
19 Pages

Effective Air Quality Prediction Using Reinforced Swarm Optimization and Bi-Directional Gated Recurrent Unit

  • Sasikumar Gurumoorthy,
  • Aruna Kumari Kokku,
  • Przemysław Falkowski-Gilski and
  • Parameshachari Bidare Divakarachari

24 July 2023

In the present scenario, air quality prediction (AQP) is a complex task due to high variability, volatility, and dynamic nature in space and time of particulates and pollutants. Recently, several nations have had poor air quality due to the high emis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,803 Views
17 Pages

Development of Energy Recovery from Waste in Slovakia Compared with the Worldwide Trend

  • Katarína Čulková,
  • Marcela Taušová,
  • Peter Tauš and
  • Eva Mihaliková

24 July 2023

With societal development and population increase, the amount of waste and energy consumption is also increasing. The use of waste for energy production is gradually establishing in the international and national legal norms and political programs of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,794 Views
15 Pages

24 July 2023

Jiangsu Province, situated in the Yangtze River basin, has rich traditional village resources and a prominent position in economic development and cultural integration. This study focuses on the analysis of the variation distribution pattern of tradi...

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