Abstract Nowadays, the use of plastic is very widespread, especially in packaging materials. Most materials are made from fossil-based polymers, which contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. The unprecedented leakage single-use waste into environment a major problem, with negative impacts on both ecosystems and human health. In this study we examine development recycled European U...

In this study, we propose that the ability to recycle may lead to increased resource usage compared to when a recycling option is not available. Supporting this hypothesis, our first experiment shows that consumers used more paper while evaluating a pair of scissors when the option to recycle was provided (vs. not provided). In a follow-up field experiment, we find that the per person restroom ...

With the rapid increase in the use of databases, the problem of missing values inevitably arises. The techniques developed to effectively recover these missing values should be highly precise in order to estimate the missing values completely. The mining of association rules can effectively establish the relationship among items in databases. Therefore, discovered association rules are usually ...

-This paper presents the compressive strength of PET fibre reinforced recycles aggregate concrete. The Natural Aggregate (NC) was replaced by recycle aggregate (RA) in the proportion of 25, 50, 75 and 100%. PET fibres were added to the Recycle Aggregate Concrete (RAC) by 1 and 2% volume. Total 45 cubes were cast and tested. The results showed that as the % of RA and volume fraction of PET fibre...

This study addresses the design of Mass Exchange Networks (MEN) featuring regeneration recycle. AquoMin is a friendly-user software based on Pinch Analysis and Mathematical Programming. It has been improved to include a new module dealing with the regeneration recycle strategy. A general algorithm was built to obtain the targets of this strategy. An Example Problem is used to evaluate the resul...

Suspension cultures of Taxus canadensis were elicited with methyl jasmonate (MJ) under defined headspace ethylene concentrations. Kinetic studies of growth, nutrient consumption, pH variation, and paclitaxel accumulation were conducted in batch cultures and semicontinuous culture with total cell recycle. A dramatic increase of paclitaxel was obtained when the cultures were elicited with 100 mic...