The Effect of Recycling on Sustainability of Solid Waste Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Waste and Recycling".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 July 2023) | Viewed by 2934
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Interests: nanomaterials; solid wastes; wastewater treatment; microplastics
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Interests: biomass materials; catalysis; water treatment; photo-thermal materials
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Interests: non-ferrous metal secondary resource recovery and recycling; spent litium-ion batteries recycling; solid waste management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With rapid economic growth of our society, a huge amount of solid wastes has been produced, and their disposal is becoming highly challenging. Direct discarding these solid wastes from various industries not only results in serious environmental pollution, but also potentially causes a waste of resources. Recycling of solid wastes has drawn widespread attentions recently in order to solve the intractable problem. Solid wastes can be turned into valuable resources via proper recycling. For example, biomass wastes have characteristics of great production, renewable superiority, and abundant sources. Recently, conversion of biomass wastes to functional materials with high performance has been a hot research topic in different fields such as energy, catalysis, and environment. There are vast opportunities for discovering more attractive strategies for efficient utilization of solid wastes, which potentially promote the sustainability for solid waste management.
This Special issue aim to collect recent researches regarding the recycling of solid wastes, providing advances and understanding of solid waste management and sustainable techniques. The topics include effective recovery, value-added preprocessing, functional modifications, and sustainable management of solid wastes from the perspective of technology, process, mechanism, and research frontier. All topics closely related to the sustainability and management of solid wastes can be accepted.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
- Separation, purification, and recovery technology of solid wastes.
- Novel technology or process on solid waste management.
- Exploration of novel sustainable applications for solid wastes.
- Novel pre-processing and characterization methods for solid wastes.
- Functional materials derived from solid wastes used for energy, environment, and catalysis and other applications.
- Novel evidences and understanding of recycling on sustainability of solid waste management.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Chongqing Wang
Dr. Gonggang Liu
Dr. Xiangping Chen
Dr. Junwei Han
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- recycling
- solid wastes
- sustainability
- functional materials
- recovery
- application
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