John Hemmerling, a senior in chemical engineering and project leader, Jeremy Pan, a sophomore in computer science, and Sahil Bhalla and Karan Kedia, both freshman in fi rst-year engineering, are a team of four students participating in the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) Environmental Improvement Initiatives (EII). In this article they describe how they are investigating waste...

Discharges from shipping are estimated to account for about 20% of global discharges at sea. The protection of the marine environment can be greatly enhanced by reducing these discharges of ship generated waste and cargo residues into the sea. Achieving zero-waste in maritime transport is one of the Commission's policy goals, as set out in the Commission Communication on strategic goals and rec...

In this paper we discuss the motivation, the technology, the design and the use-model of a novel web service for quantity surveyors, aiming to exploit virtual and augmented reality methods to implement a “zero waste” model, i.e. a new design paradigm where the waste materials from demolition become resources for reconstruction. The goal of this project is to provide virtual/augmented reality to...

Abstract Background Plastics were considered as a magical material owing to their strong, non-degradable and versatile characteristics. After five decades of mass application, plastics’ property non-biodegradability has become one the key concerns for scientists, civil society government pollution damage that plastics cause our environment. Globally we have generated 8.3bn tonnes since 1950s ar...

This is pilot study designed to ascertain college students' understanding of domestic food waste management using an online questioner. The descriptive results section the report used describe central tendency data collected for each variable. Meanwhile, people who took part in research were all a webinar on that was led by from universities and environmental groups. findings indicated knowledg...

This paper addresses the substitution of virgin resources used in industrial processes with by-products that would otherwise be regarded as waste and questions why some byproduct markets fail to emerge. It highlights the long-forgotten distinction between the use-value and exchange-value and points out that markets can only work for assigning the latter. It argues that in some industrial settin...