Sustainable Polymer Technologies for a Circular Economy

Bridging Economy and Ecology: a Circular Economy Approach to Sustainable Supply Chain Management

The linkage between economic and environmental issues in an inter-organizational context receives significant attention from scholars and industrial practice. Emerging concepts like Green Supply Chain Management (Green SCM), extending supply chain management with ecological aspects like resource optimization and recycling, might be the first step towards an ecologically responsible economy. But...

Green Virtual Enterprise Breeding Environments: A Sustainable Industrial Development Model for a Circular Economy

A Green Virtual Enterprise Breeding Environment (GVBE) is a longterm strategic alliance of green enterprises and their related support institutions aimed at offering the necessary conditions to efficiently promote the sharing and recycling of resources such as: information, materials, water, energy and/or infrastructure with the intention of achieving sustainable development in a collaborative ...

Circular Economy: A New Development Strategy for Sustainable Development in China

Development in China SHI Lei*, XING Lu*, BI Jun*, ZHANG Bin* *) State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of Environment, Nanjing University; Center for Environmental Management and Policy, Nanjing University and Jiangsu Environmental Production Department, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China ABSTRACT Circular economy is a theory which advocates developing economy on the basi...

Waste and circular economy

New Electricity Technologies for a Sustainable Future

There is a growing concern over continuous reliance of our economic and energy systems on conventional electricity sources and their long-term environmental, climate change, and security of supply implications. At the same time, much hope and belief is vested in the ability of future technological progress to tackles these issues. However, informed academic analysis and policy debates on the fu...