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Special Issue "Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Resources and Sustainable Utilization"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Resources and Sustainable Utilization".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2023 | Viewed by 790

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Department of Civil Engineering, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD 21251, USA
Interests: environmental impact and risk assessment; water supply engineering; biological wastewater treatment; civil engineering project management; sustainable energy
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Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
Interests: design and use of biological systems for the treatment of organic waste (composting and anaerobic digestion); nanotechnology for environmental remediation; solid-state fermentation to convert wastes into bioproducts
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Department of Environmental Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Kimmeria Campus, GR 671 32 Xanthi, Greece
Interests: municipal solid waste management; composting; biorefining of solid waste; life cycle analysis
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Photometry Laboratory, Electric Power Division, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Heroon Polytechniou Street, 15780 Athens, Greece
Interests: engineering; environment; energy; renewable energy sources; waste management from organic pollutants; properties of polymer materials; business administration; education; culture; human resource management; psychology; urban and regional development; forest resource management; extroversion and internationalization of small and medium enterprises (SMEs); development economics; environmental systems; circular economy; behavioral ecology
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Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) 124 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34132, Korea
Interests: resources to materials via environmental management; sustainable secondary resources innovation; hydrometallurgy & urban mining; clean energy technology applications & sustainable energy solutions; establish policy for resources recovery and recycling
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The Institute of the Theory of Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Information Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Interests: lightning protection; electromagnetic compatibility; safety of electrical and electronic devices; risk management
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Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201210, China
Interests: metabolic regulation of microbiological cell factories; biotechnology for microbial synthesis of important pharmaceutical intermediates/bioactive substances; application of environmental biotechnology
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce this Collection titled “Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Resources and Sustainable Utilization”, which will collect papers invited by the Editorial Board Members.

The aim of this Collection is to provide scholars in the field of Resources and Sustainable Utilization with a platform for networking and communication. All papers will be fully open access upon publication after peer review.

Prof. Dr. Gbekeloluwa B. Oguntimein
Prof. Dr. Antoni Sánchez
Dr. Dimitrios Komilis
Dr. Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos
Prof. Dr. Rajesh Kumar Jyothi
Dr. Michal Borecki
Dr. Baoguo Zhang
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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An Innovative and Alternative Waste Collection Recycling Program Based on Source Separation of Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW) and Operating with Mobile Green Points (MGPs)
Sustainability 2023, 15(4), 3106; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043106 - 08 Feb 2023
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Recently, among European Union (EU) member states, but also globally, there have been available and successful recycling and treatment practices of Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW). Greece has currently implemented low recycling levels, 21%, of the annually produced MSW, compared to the EU regulations. [...] Read more.
Recently, among European Union (EU) member states, but also globally, there have been available and successful recycling and treatment practices of Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW). Greece has currently implemented low recycling levels, 21%, of the annually produced MSW, compared to the EU regulations. In 2021 the prefectural authorities of Attica Region launched a pilot program of rewarding recycling with source Separation called “THE GREEN CITY”. This program consists of 60 mobile green points (MGPs) that serve at a unified citizen awareness and MSW collection at 7-streams network throughout the prefecture of Attica. In this study, the whole design analysis of “THE GREEN CITY” pilot recycling program contained estimations and calculations of (a) the distances of all waste collection remote itineraries (basic analysis); (b) the annual fuel cost of the MGPs for the realization of all waste collection remote itineraries (financial-based analysis); and (c) the annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the atmosphere from the IVECO MGPs during the coverage of all waste collection remote itineraries (environmental-based analysis). Then a research synthesis of all these analyses revealed and evaluated the pilot recycling program’s real capabilities and limitations in alignment with: (a) its ultimate goal to help Greece achieve the setting target of Directive 2018/851 for at least 55% by weight recycling and reuse of the total annually generated Greek MSW by 2025 and (b) the MGPs proven ability to support environmental sustainability in densely populated prefectures such as Attica. Full article
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