Industrial ecology: concepts and approaches.

Jelinski, Lynn W.; Graedel, T. E.; Laudise, R.A.; McCall, David W.; Patel, C. K. N.

doi:10.1073/pnas.89.3.793

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“…In a circular system, waste and by-products can be reused as energy sources or raw materials for another product or process [95]. The development in industrial ecosystems can be classified into three different groups [96]. The first is undeveloped systems, which focus on a linear economy and do not have feedback flows.…”

Section: Circular Economy (Ce)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Transition towards Sustainable Solutions: Product, Service, Technology, and Business Model

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Nowadays, the horse industry can be considered as an important industry in European countries and has a major role in agricultural industry throughout the world. Although today the diversity of the horse-related companies provides new markets and business opportunities, there are also some sustainable issues which needs to be addressed. Therefore, this study contributes to this research gap by reviewing the concept of sustainability and existing approaches to find sustainable solutions for companies. These sustainable approaches can be applied to products, services and technologies as well as business models, such as the product-service-system (PSS), circular economy (CE) and industrial symbiosis (IS). Although there seems to be a growing understanding of sustainable approaches and their role in sustainable development, there is a lack of research at the empirical level regarding the types of sustainability approaches (i.e., technologies, services, products and business models) that evolve in specific industries. The empirical data in this research have been collected from a cross-section of Finnish horse industry operators to determine how willing companies are to exploit approaches to sustainable solutions, as well as what the existing sustainable solutions are in this industry. The response rate of this study is approximately 24 percent, including 139 received valid responses among the sample of 580 operators.

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Section: Circular Economy (Ce)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Transition towards Sustainable Solutions: Product, Service, Technology, and Business Model

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“…Developing this further, industrial symbiosis suggests that if one organism can make use of another organism's waste, then this can also occur within an industrial system (Korhonen et al, 2004). This approach seeks 'to optimize the total materials cycle from virgin material to finished material, to component, to product, to waste product, and to ultimate disposal' (Jelinski et al, 1992) with the intention of producing a 'more elegant, less wasteful network of industrial processes' (Erkman, 1997). More formally then, industrial symbiosis can be defined as 'the part of industrial ecology [that] engages traditionally separate industries in a collective approach to competitive advantage, involving physical exchange of materials, energy, waste and by-products' (Chertow, 2000).…”

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Municipal solid waste as a resource: part 1 – specifying composition

Cox¹,

Mulheron²,

Jesson³

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Waste and R

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Waste is a complex societal problem and its management brings together various stakeholders. However, lack of sufficient information on the quantities and types of materials in the waste stream can make sustainable waste management difficult. Since waste in one sector can be valuable as a resource in another, there is a need to understand the distribution of materials within the resource stream, especially those that go to landfill. Current work is seeking to address this: whereas much material is already recycled, this is not the only management option and there remain several problematic materials and components that need to be removed from residual waste. This paper, the first of two case studies, presents a more comprehensive waste composition specification to improve the management of municipal waste. In developing the approach, waste composition specifications currently in use were reviewed and compared with the solid municipal waste collected at community recycling centres and from kerbsides.Key primary and secondary descriptors for the better management of resources arising from municipal waste were determined and the impact of these changes on the information arising from composition analysis is discussed.

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“…This has led to the development of a new concept related to the processing of advanced materials in the 21st century, viz., industrial ecology or the science of sustainability. 4) Hydrothermal chemistry has to be understood precisely in order to process the materials under soft and environmentally benign conditions. The behaviour of the solvent under hydrothermal conditions dealing with aspects like structure at critical, supercritical, and sub-critical conditions, dielectric constant, pH variation, viscosity, coefficient of expansion, density, etc.…”

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Novel hydrothermal solution routes of advanced high melting nanomaterials processing

Byrappa

2009

J. Ceram. Soc. Japan

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Novel hydrothermal solution processing routes covering conventional hydrothermal, solvothermal and supercritical hydrothermal techniques are becoming the most efficient routes for advanced nanomaterials processing including the high melting compounds. The importance of these novel hydrothermal solution routes has been discussed with appropriate examples. The current trends in the hydrothermal solution processing of materials, the importance of solubility study, thermodynamic calculations and the role of surfactants and chelates have been discussed in detail. The multi-energy processing of materials, instant hydrothermal system and the new concept in materials processing, viz. Chemistry at the speed of light have been highlighted here. The hydrothermal synthesis of nanomaterials of carbon polymorphs, rare earth vanadates, metal oxides and their nanocomposites have been discussed with an emphasis on the control of size and morphology.

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Industrial ecology: concepts and approaches.

Cited by 291 publications

References 22 publications

Transition towards Sustainable Solutions: Product, Service, Technology, and Business Model

Transition towards Sustainable Solutions: Product, Service, Technology, and Business Model

Municipal solid waste as a resource: part 1 – specifying composition

Novel hydrothermal solution routes of advanced high melting nanomaterials processing

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