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Entrepreneurs are key assets to systemically address marine plastic pollution
, 2022 Entrepreneurs are important actors in effectively managing marine plastic pollution, but they face unique challenges in developing sustainable business models within an unsustainable system.
Dijkstra, Hanna; id_orcid
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Circular Transitions in Healthcare Waste Management in Vietnam: An Institutional Perspective
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACTHealthcare waste management (HCWM) is a growing environmental and public health concern. This study explores how the institutional pressures that shape HCWM practices evolve toward circularity through coercive, normative, and mimetic isomorphisms and how these mechanisms influence organisational behaviour in Vietnam, a complex, highly regulated
V. Tuomala +7 more
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Evaluating Solutions to Marine Plastic Pollution
EnvironmentsThe pollution of the oceans by plastic waste is one of the major environmental problems of our time. It is estimated that there are millions of tons of polymers floating on the surface of the oceans, concentrated in several large plastic accumulations so-called plastic islands.
Diego Vergara +4 more
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Who Qualifies to Assure? The Professional and Managerial Capture of Sustainability Assurance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how the qualification of assurors in sustainability and environmental reporting assurance (SERA) is constructed and why it remains fiercely contested. Drawing on actor–network theory (ANT) and qualitative evidence from regulators, NGOs, assurors and reporting companies in India, we conceptualise ‘qualification’ as a ...
Flavia Rodricks +2 more
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Marine plastic debris action plan for Washington State
, 1988 94 pgs.This report shows the effort by the Marine Plastic Debris Task Force (MPDTF) to develop an action plan in the state of Washington. It discusses how this effort was modeled by those of Texas Land Commissioner Gary Mauro, federal legislation, and a
Marine Plastic Debris Task Force
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The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines the microwave‐assisted catalytic pyrolysis (MACP) of individual and blended textiles (cotton, polyester, nylon 6) using ZnO and a ZnO/natural zeolite catalyst. In a custom‐built microwave reactor operated at 500°C, 1 kW power, and a 15‐min residence time, textile wastes were pyrolyzed.
Peyman Alizadeh +3 more
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on research on marine plastic pollution - A bibliometric-based assessment. [PDF]
Mar Policy, 2022 Wang Q, Huang R, Li R.
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Haiyang Kaifa yu guanliMarine plastic pollution has become a global environmental problem and seriously threatens marine ecosystems. The “End Plastic Pollution Resolution” adopted by the United Nations Environment Assembly on March 2, 2022, indicates new developments in the ...
ZHENG Mingyu, YU Miaohong
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Frontiers in Marine ScienceThe harm caused by marine plastic pollution to the wider environment highlights its importance as a governance issue. The Fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) adopted a resolution, “End Plastic Pollution: Towards an International Legally ...
Jiang Zhou, Di Luo
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The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.Timeline of key academic milestones and individuals that shaped chemical engineering at FQ‐UNAM and in Mexico. Abstract One hundred years after the beginning of the teaching of Chemical Engineering in Mexico, which started in 1925 in the former National School of Chemical Sciences, currently Faculty of Chemistry (FQ) at National Autonomous University ...
Patricia Pérez‐Salinas +2 more
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