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Resources, Volume 11, Issue 5

May 2022 - 12 articles

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Cover Story: Textile industries are in the spotlight due to the heavy environmental impacts along their products’ life cycle, and at the same time, they are a priority sector in the new circular economy action plan of the European Commission. In this framework, the Italian company Manteco SpA has developed a value chain based on the recycling of pre- and post-consumer discarded textiles, whose output is a secondary wool fiber named MWool®. This study develops an environmental analysis of recycled wool fibers through the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology, and a parallel LCA is developed on virgin wool fiber. From the study, it emerged that recycled wool fibers can save about 60% of the impacts of virgin fibers. View this paper

Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,692 Views
14 Pages

Elastic Wave Propagation in a Stainless-Steel Standard and Verification of a COMSOL Multiphysics Numerical Elastic Wave Toolbox

  • Mohsen Bazargan,
  • Bjarne S. G. Almqvist,
  • Hem Bahadur Motra,
  • Pooyan Broumand,
  • Tobias Schmiedel and
  • Christoph F. Hieronymus

Laboratory-based elastic wave measurements are commonly used to quantify the seismic properties of Earth’s crust and upper mantle. Different types of laboratory apparatuses are available for such measurements, simulating seismic properties at d...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
59 Citations
12,239 Views
16 Pages

Trends and Opportunities of Bivalve Shells’ Waste Valorization in a Prospect of Circular Blue Bioeconomy

  • Daniela Summa,
  • Mattia Lanzoni,
  • Giuseppe Castaldelli,
  • Elisa Anna Fano and
  • Elena Tamburini

Bivalves aquaculture is already considered a very sustainable for of food production and might become an essential pillar on which to develop future global food security. However, with the increase in production, a correspondingly great amount of was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,057 Views
16 Pages

Biologically vital areas (BVAs) indicate regions with ecological functions within cities. Their presence in green spaces helps to counteract the negative impacts of built-up areas and impermeable structures on urban environments and city dwellers. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
15,236 Views
18 Pages

The Key to Sustainable Economic Development: A Triple Bottom Line Approach

  • Elisabete Nogueira,
  • Sofia Gomes and
  • João M. Lopes

Concerns about improving social, environmental, and economic living standards are the basis of the triple bottom line (TBL) link to economic development (ED). Aware of the importance of studying their relationship, this article analysed the influence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,662 Views
11 Pages

Minimising waste through re-use thereof is the third tier of the waste minimisation hierarchy. Understanding the socio-demographic profile of waste re-users can assist in developing effective waste minimisation strategies and programmes. The objectiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,725 Views
19 Pages

Societal Evaluation of Bioeconomy Scenarios for Germany

  • Katrin Zander,
  • Sabine Will,
  • Jan Göpel,
  • Christopher Jung and
  • Rüdiger Schaldach

Transitioning to a bio-based economy is widely perceived as a necessary way to tackle climate change and other key environmental challenges. Given the major socio-economic consequences that such a transition entails for people’s everyday lives,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,290 Views
13 Pages

This work focuses on the production of activated carbons by hydrothermal carbonization of olive stones at 220 °C, followed by chemical activation with KOH, FeCl3 and H3PO4 of the hydrochar obtained. In addition, N-doped hydrochars were also obtai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,635 Views
22 Pages

Natural gas is considered an important bridge in the transition of energy in the world. However, the development and management of unconventional gas now face many challenges. This paper aims to provide an overview of what would be required to formul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
12,449 Views
16 Pages

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of MWool® Recycled Wool Fibers

  • Isabella Bianco,
  • Raffaella Gerboni,
  • Giuseppe Picerno and
  • Gian Andrea Blengini

Textile industries are in the spotlight due to the heavy environmental impacts along their products’ life cycle and, at the same time, they are a priority sector in the new circular economy action plan of the European Commission. In this framew...

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