Waste Strategies Development in the Framework of Circular Economy
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Resources and Sustainable Utilization".
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Interests: strategic planning development; zero waste approach; waste prevention; food waste; fashion waste; circular and bio-economy and industrial symbiosis; solid waste management and treatment (including hazardous and explosive); end of waste criteria; life cycle assessment (LCA); material flow analysis (MFA); waste to energy
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Interests: biomass valorization: pyrolysis, gasification, and combustion of different biomasses, including agriculture residues and agro-industrial by-products; thermal degradation mechanisms and kinetics; gas emission analysis; exhaust gas treatment: exhaust gas treatment in fixed and mobile sources; NOx and soot abatement; volatile organic compound elimination
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Interests: Maria Doula is a chemist, holding M.Sc and PhD degree on Chemical Technology in the field of soil management and pollution. She is an Associate Researcher, Head of the Laboratory of Non-Parasitic Diseases, in the Benaki Phytopathological Institute, in Greece, and also collaborating academic staff of the Open University of Cyprus. Dr. Doula has published 38 peer-reviewed papers in peer-reviewed journals, more than 80 announcements in international conferences and 7 book chapters on environmental quality, soil science, waste management and reuse in agriculture, sustainable agriculture, climate change. She participated in EU projects as coordinator or member of project team. Her research work has gained international acceptance and the citations of her published work are more than 1000.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Waste (manly solid, but also liquid) is considered to be one of the main environmental issues nowadays, although it has a strong relation with social dimensions and economy (locally or globally). There are several targets to be reached from member states in the entire EU and, moreover, globally. A circular economy aims to boost the recycling community, and comprises a common EU target for recycling at least 55% of municipal waste by 2025 (this target will rise to 60% by 2030 and 65% by 2035). Hence, the envisaged common EU target for recycling is 65% of packaging waste by 2025, and 70% by 2030. There would be separate targets for specific material i.e., all packaging up to 70%, plastics up to 55% etc by 2030. Moreover, a circular economy aims to introduce end-waste criteria (EWC) and quality protocols. EWC would consider materials non-waste across the EU, and would prevent the case by case classification of items/materials as waste, unless at some point it again meets the specific waste definition. To implement any waste solution, strategies related to the prevention, reuse, recycling, energy recovering, extract of high added value products, etc., must be developed. These strategies aim to grow quality of life and changed the way that residents react in the framework of waste management, in order to reduce the effect of several processes on the environment through product, processes, and corporate policies, using green applicable sustainable resources and environmental management. This Special Issue will collect papers world-wide related to strategy development, and adopted from many countries and urban areas in the framework of waste management (solid and liquid). The entire Special Issue will be useful for any one related to waste management, i.e., policy makers, consultants, engineers, scientist, academics, etc.
References:
Neoklis Antoniou, Antonis A. Zorpas (2019). Quality Protocol Development to define End-of-Waste Criteria for Tire Pyrolysis Oil in the framework of Circularl Economy Strategy. Waste Management, 95, 161-170 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2019.05.035.
Pantelitsa Loizia, Niki Neofytou, Antonis A. Zorpas (2018) The concept of circular economy in food waste management for the optimization of energy production through UASB reactor. Environmental Science and Pollution research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-3519-4.
Antonis A. Zorpas, Katia Lasaridi, Diana-Mihaela Pociovălişteanu, Pantelista Loizia (2018) Household compost monitoring and evaluation in the framework of waste prevention strategy. Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol 172, pp 3567-3577, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.03.155.
Amel Ibn Ferjani, Mejdi Jeguirim, Salah Jellali, Lionel Limousy, Claire Courson, Hanène Akrout, Nicolas Thevenin, Lionel Ruidavets, Simona Bennici, The use of exhausted grape marc to produce biofuels and biofertilizers: Effect of pyrolysis temperatures on biochars properties, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2019 (107) 425-433.
Khouloud Haddad, Mejdi Jeguirim, Boutheina Jerbi, Ajmia Chouchene, Patrick Dutournié, Nicolas Thevenin, Lionel Ruidavets, Salah Jellali, Lionel Limousy, Olive Mill Wastewater: From a Pollutant to Green Fuels, Agricultural Water Source and Biofertilizer, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng, 2017, 5, 8988–8996.
Assist. Prof. Dr. Antonis A. Zorpas
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Maria K. Doula
Dr. Antonis A. Zorpas
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Keywords
- waste strategies
- circular economy
- strategic planning development
- LCA industrial symbiosis
- waste pyrolysis
- waste valorization
- food waste management
- attitude and behavior
- high added value products
- critical minerals
- WEEE
- liquid waste reused and recycling
- biosolid management
- bioeconomy
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