Blockchain technology applications in waste management: Overview, challenges and opportunities

P Jiang, L Zhang, S You, Y Van Fan, RR Tan… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Rapid population growth and urbanisation have accelerated waste generation, and effective
waste management has become a major challenge worldwide. With advances in technology …

Sustainable approach for valorization of solid wastes as a secondary resource through urban mining

M Tejaswini, P Pathak, DK Gupta - Journal of environmental management, 2022 - Elsevier
The incessant population has increased the production and consumption of plastics, paper,
metals, and organic materials, which are discarded as solid waste after their end of life. The …

Characterizing sludge pyrolysis by machine learning: towards sustainable bioenergy production from wastes

H Shahbeik, S Rafiee, A Shafizadeh, D Jeddi, T Jafary… - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Sludge pyrolysis has sparked the interest of researchers because of its capability to dispose
of hazardous residues while producing valuable bioproducts. Numerous expensive and …

Operationalizing Digitainability: Encouraging mindfulness to harness the power of digitalization for sustainable development

S Gupta, J Campos Zeballos, G del Río Castro… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Digitalization is globally transforming the world with profound implications. It has enormous
potential to foster progress toward sustainability. However, in its current form, digitalization …

Maternal exposure to polystyrene nanoparticles retarded fetal growth and triggered metabolic disorders of placenta and fetus in mice

G Chen, S **ong, Q **g, CAM van Gestel… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastics can enter the human body via direct body contact or the food chain, increasing
the likelihood of adverse impacts on pregnancy and fetal development. We investigated the …

Microplastics altered contaminant behavior and toxicity in natural waters

T Ding, L Wei, Z Hou, J Li, C Zhang, D Lin - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) have received an increasing attention because of their ubiquitous
presence and aquatic toxicity associated with MPs and MP-bound contaminants in the …

Life cycle assessment of microplastics reveals their greater environmental hazards than mismanaged polymer waste losses

X Zhao, F You - Environmental science & technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Concern about microplastic pollution sourced from mismanaged plastic waste losses to
drainage basins is growing but lacks relevant environmental impact analyses. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Global projections of plastic use, end-of-life fate and potential changes in consumption, reduction, recycling and replacement with bioplastics to 2050

M Dokl, A Copot, D Krajnc, Y Van Fan… - Sustainable Production …, 2024 - Elsevier
Excessive production, indiscriminate consumption, and improper disposal of plastics have
led to plastic pollution and its hazardous environmental effects. Various approaches to …

Prediction of organic contaminant rejection by nanofiltration and reverse osmosis membranes using interpretable machine learning models

T Zhu, Y Zhang, C Tao, W Chen, H Cheng - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Efficiency improvement in contaminant removal by nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis
(RO) membranes is a multidimensional process involving membrane material selection and …

Forecasting heterogeneous municipal solid waste generation via Bayesian-optimised neural network with ensemble learning for improved generalisation

ZX Hoy, KS Woon, WC Chin, H Hashim… - Computers & Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Future projections of municipal solid waste (MSW) generation trends can resolve data
inadequacy in formulating a sustainable MSW management framework. Artificial neural …