Waste Management, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 181, С. 79 - 88
Опубликована: Апрель 9, 2024
Язык: Английский
Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India) Series D, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown
Опубликована: Янв. 10, 2025
Язык: Английский
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Applied Sciences, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 15(4), С. 2122 - 2122
Опубликована: Фев. 17, 2025
The accelerated growth of the electrical and electronic equipment market is a major driver behind increasing e-waste volumes worldwide. Although contains valuable resources, most remain unrecycled or improperly managed. Recycling efforts primarily focus on recovering metals, while plastic constituents overlooked. Furthermore, current recycling approaches have led to environmental contamination by hazardous materials. Recent for valorisation plastics demonstrated potential applications these materials their role in towards implementing more sustainable economy. While impact strategies been recently reviewed, thorough discussion that accounts impact, characterisation strategies, biotechnological treatment options remains lacking. Accordingly, this review addresses gap, discussing recent developments field. It focuses impacts, collection samples characterisation, as well innovative through strategies. Specifically, centred studies directly use derived from e-waste. progress has made contaminants remediation/bioprocessing type waste, challenges remain, including financial barriers, limited research volume compared related fields (e.g., metals), relevance concerns. This identifies need increased research, interdisciplinary collaboration, policy support overcome barriers advance management.
Язык: Английский
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Case Studies in Construction Materials, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. e04441 - e04441
Опубликована: Фев. 1, 2025
Язык: Английский
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Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 100647 - 100647
Опубликована: Март 1, 2025
Язык: Английский
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Environmental Science & Policy, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 151, С. 103640 - 103640
Опубликована: Ноя. 17, 2023
Petrochemical producers both rely upon and generate some of the most problematic substances in current age socioecological crisis: fossil fuels plastics. With mounting calls to cap fuel extraction as well plastics production, industry appears be caught between a rock hard place. Nonetheless, betting on continuously increasing global plastic demand, petrochemical production is expanding significantly. This predicament raises question how attempts square with need address environmental issues. In recent years, leading actors around have promoted notions carbon circularity desirable mitigation strategy. this paper, we examine strategy, using discourse analysis uncover what refer imaginary circular carbon. We highlight risks delaying climate by rendering alternative pathways undesirable. It does so reconciling increased neutrality, economy vision economy, framing crisis an issue management. dioxide, petrochemicals, all fit mere flows The thereby helps future-proof legitimizing its carbon-intensive practises essential world order crisis.
Язык: Английский
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Environmental Science & Technology, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 57(49), С. 20571 - 20582
Опубликована: Ноя. 28, 2023
The chemical industry is a major and growing source of CO2 emissions. Here, we extend the principal U.S.-based integrated assessment model, GCAM, to include representation steam cracking, dominant process in organic today, suite emerging decarbonization strategies, including catalytic lower-carbon heat, feedstock switching. We find that production technologies only have small impact on midcentury emissions mitigation. In contrast, heat generation could achieve strong mitigation, reducing associated by ∼76% 2050. Process diversified carbon capture storage (CCS), hydrogen, electrification. A sensitivity analysis reveals our results for future net are most sensitive amount CCS deployed globally. system as defined cannot reach net-zero if share incineration increases projected without coupling with CCS. Less chemicals produced than those no-policy scenario. Mitigation relies heavily biogenic used an alternative waste treatment plastics. scenario delivers net-negative from sector (by 2070) combines greater use feedstocks continued reliance landfilling plastic, versus recycling or incineration, which has trade-offs.
Язык: Английский
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Environmental Research, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 252, С. 118971 - 118971
Опубликована: Апрель 19, 2024
Язык: Английский
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Elsevier eBooks, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 499 - 544
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024
Язык: Английский
Процитировано
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Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 13(1)
Опубликована: Сен. 10, 2024
Abstract Background Israel is a regional "hotspot" of plastic pollution, with little discussion potential adverse health effects from exposure to plastic. This review aims stimulate and drive policy by focusing on these effects. Main body Plastics are synthetic polymers containing additives which can leach food- beverage-contact into our food beverages, textiles onto skin. persist in the environment for generations, fragmenting MNPs: Micro (1 micron–5 mm)-Nano nm–1 micron)-Plastic, contaminate atmosphere, water, chain. MNP enter human through ingestion, inhalation touch. < 10 microns cross epithelial barriers respiratory gastrointestinal systems, fragments 100 nm intact skin, enabling entry tissues. have been found multiple organs body. Patients atheromas carotid arteries increased risk combined measure stroke, cardiovascular disease, death. Toxic plastics include bisphenols, phthalates, PFAS, endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) cause dysregulation thyroid function, reproduction, metabolism, including obesity, diabetes, endometriosis, cancer, decreased fertility, sperm count quality. Fetal EDCs associated rates miscarriages, prematurity low birth weight. There likely no safe level EDCs, increasing evidence trans-generational epigenetic several existing Israeli laws reduce use waste. Taxes single-use (SUP) were recently cancelled. many gaps regulatory standards food-, beverage- child- Existing poorly enforced. Conclusion Reduction production plastic, promotion recycling reduction leaching toxic beverages essential goals. Specific recommendations: Periodic monitoring bottled food, indoor air; Strengthen enforcement beverage-, child-safe plastic; Renew tax SUPs; National ban SUP at public beaches, nature reserves parks; Ban products manufactured MNP; Increase research sources outcomes EDCs.
Язык: Английский
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Recycling, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 9(2), С. 30 - 30
Опубликована: Апрель 9, 2024
This review summarizes recent data related to the management of marine plastic litter promote sustainable development. It discusses distribution and identification litter, assesses potential socio-economic environmental impacts these pollutants, explores their recovery strategies, from a circular economy perspective. The main findings indicate that majority originates land-based sources. Current technologies approaches for valorizing include mechanical chemical recycling, blockchain by providing traceability, verification, efficiency transparency throughout recycling process, public awareness programs education. developed policies prevent emphasize regulations initiatives focused toward reducing use improving waste management. By adopting holistic approach, it is possible mitigate impact debris while simultaneously creating economic opportunities.
Язык: Английский
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