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Sustainability, Volume 16, Issue 9

May-1 2024 - 375 articles

Cover Story: PVC is the mass plastic to which the most diverse and quantitatively largest number of additives are added. This makes PVC difficult to recycle. In the 1980s, the PVC industry announced its commitment to improve the sustainability of the material through material recycling. But after three decades, the recycling result is rather meagre. The majority of PVC waste in Europe is still going to waste-to-energy plants. The many attempts to end the chlorine cycle via waste incineration and to expand chemical recycling in parallel have not been successful. The main reasons are the quantity and variety of additives, legacy chemicals (legacy additives), and economic interests. View this paper
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Articles (375)

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,287 Views
17 Pages

Compared to regions with lighter pollution, the areas heavily affected by pollution in China face more severe environmental problems due to rapid economic growth, which creates a greater urgency for government and corporate environmental requirements...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,263 Views
19 Pages

Overexploitation in wild-capture fisheries is a principal driver of marine biodiversity loss. Currently, efforts are underway to improve the representation of marine damage indicators in Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) methods. The recently opera...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,703 Views
27 Pages

Everyday activity incurs carbon footprints, which are classified as personal, production, organizational and national, and may be assessed by input–output analysis (IOA), life-cycle assessment (LCA), or the combination of LCA and IOA methods. N...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,307 Views
18 Pages

With a phenomenal amount of marine debris being retrieved from the coast and sea, an initiative to engage in marine debris recycling, particularly of plastic debris, has been on the governmental agenda in Taiwan in recent years. Consumers purchasing...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,424 Views
17 Pages

Escalating global climate change and the intensification of urban heatwaves have led to an increase in summer air conditioning cooling energy consumption. This phenomenon is particularly critical in tropical regions, as it may trigger an energy crisi...

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  • Open Access
2,832 Views
23 Pages

Classification of Roadway Context and Target Speed for Multilane Highways in Thailand Using Fuzzy Expert System

  • Chomphunut Sutheerakul,
  • Nopadon Kronprasert,
  • Wichuda Satiennam and
  • Moe Sandi Zaw

The classification of roadway contexts and speeds is a critical step in the planning, design, and operation of highway infrastructure. In developing countries, road users encounter safety and operational issues due to poorly defined roadway contexts...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,127 Views
24 Pages

Assessment methodologies such as BREEAM and LEED allocate points based on prescribed interventions that promote design features or strategies considered to be more sustainable than others. A focus on accumulating numerical scores, however, often fail...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,342 Views
14 Pages

To progress towards the “dual carbon” goal and reduce the cost and increase the efficiency of solid oxide fuel cells, this study conducts a full life cycle analysis of solid oxide fuel cells, in which the environmental impact caused by th...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,306 Views
22 Pages

Circular fashion has gained attention among practitioners and academics. We further contribute to this debate by investigating leasing in the context of rented online clothing in greater depth. First, we conduct a qualitative study and identify sever...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,164 Views
20 Pages

Which Values Matter Most to Romanian Consumers? Exploring the Impact of Green Attitudes and Communication on Buying Behavior

  • Răzvan-Andrei Corboș,
  • Ovidiu-Iulian Bunea,
  • Monica Triculescu and
  • Sorina Ioana Mișu

The increasing commitment to sustainable consumption has intensified the scholarly focus on the determinants of environmentally friendly consumer behavior. This investigation provides an insight into the intricate interplay between green consumer val...

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