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Environmental Impacts of Personal Protective Clothing Used to Combat COVID‐ 19 [PDF]
Advanced Sustainable Systems, 2021 Personal protective clothing is critical to shield users from highly infectious diseases including COVID‐19. Such clothing is predominantly single‐use, made of plastic‐based synthetic fibers such as polypropylene and polyester, low cost and able to ...
M. Uddin +5 more
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Systems, 2023 Entry into parenthood is a major disruptive event to travel behavior, and gender gaps in mobility choices are often widened during parenthood. The exact timing of gender gap formation and their long-term effects on different subpopulations are less ...
Hung-Chia Yang +7 more
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Estimating the environmental impacts of 57,000 food products
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022 Significance One barrier to enabling transitions to more environmentally sustainable food systems is the lack of detailed environmental impact information.
Michael A. Clark +9 more
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Hydrogen production, storage, utilisation and environmental impacts: a review
Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2021 Dihydrogen (H 2 ), commonly named ‘hydrogen’, is increasingly recognised as a clean and reliable energy vector for decarbonisation and defossilisation by various sectors.
A. Osman +6 more
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Microgrid Environmental Impact
2020 6th IEEE International Energy Conference (ENERGYCon), 2020 Les centrales électriques ont de mauvais impacts sur l'environnement. L'un de ces impacts est l'émission de dioxyde de carbone (CO2) résultant des centrales électriques qui dépendent des combustibles fossiles, du pétrole et du gaz naturel. L'énergie renouvelable est considérée comme une solution importante à ce problème car elle est classée comme une ...
Salem Al‐Agtash +12 more
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The Environmental Impacts of Fast Fashion on Water Quality: A Systematic Review
Water, 2022 The fashion industry is the second most polluting industry, contributing 8% of all carbon emissions and 20% of all global wastewater, with an anticipated 50% increase in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. To gain a better understanding of the state of the
Kerrice Bailey, A. Basu, Sapna Sharma
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Environmental impacts of rare earth production
MRS bulletin, 2022 Rare earth elements (REEs) are important raw materials for green technologies. However, REE mining and production uses techniques that are often not environmentally sustainable.
P. Zapp +3 more
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Environmental Impacts, Pollution Sources and Pathways of spent Lithium-ion Batteries
Energy & Environmental Science, 2021 There is a growing demand for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) for electric transportation and to support the application of renewable energies by auxiliary energy storage systems.
W. Mrozik +3 more
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Environmental Impacts—Coastal Ecosystems [PDF]
, 2016 This chapter examines the impacts of climate change on the natural coastal ecosystems in the North Sea region. These comprise sandy shores and dunes and salt marshes in estuaries and along the coast. The chapter starts by describing the characteristic geomorphological features of these systems and the importance of sediment transport.
Bakker, Jan P. +6 more
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Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing, 2021 Innovations in industrial automation, information and communication technology (ICT), renewable energy as well as monitoring and sensing fields have been paving the way for smart devices, which can acquire and convey information to the Internet.
J. Wiklund +6 more
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