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The Largest Environmental Movement: Recycling and Consumption Work in Sweden [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
By sorting their waste for recycling, Swedes are told that they are part of 'Sweden's largest environmental movement' (Avfall Sverige, 2008). Recycling in Sweden is understood as an environmental action by all parties within society (including consumers,
Wheeler, Kathryn
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Filterscape: energy recycling in a creative ecosystem [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper extends previous work in evolutionary ecosystemic approaches to generative art. Filterscape, adopts the implicit fitness specification that is fundamental to this approach and explores the use of resource recycling as a means of generating ...
Dorin, A, Eldridge, A
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Extending the limits of paper recycling - improvements along the paper value chain

open access: yesForest Systems, 2013
Aim of study: The purpose of this study is to analyze how paper recycling activities in Europe can be extended through different improvements along the paper value chain.
A. Blanco, R. Miranda, M.C. Monte
doaj   +1 more source

Prediction of Flotation Deinking Performance: A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Techniques

open access: yesApplied Sciences
Flotation deinking is one of the most widely used techniques for the separation of ink particles from cellulose fibers during the process of paper recycling.
Tamara Gavrilović   +3 more
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The Stories Paper Tells: Paper in the life of the Alorna Family, Prisoners of State (1759-1777)

open access: yesCromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
The author proposes an approach to the symbolic and emotional meanings invested in paper through time, by briefly focusing on two dimensions of paper mobility: a larger dimension related to international paper trade, documenting the circulation of ...
Vanda Anastacio
doaj   +1 more source

Flexible Humidity Sensors Based on Multidimensional Titanium Dioxide/Cellulose Nanocrystals Composite Film

open access: yesNanomaterials, 2022
A humidity sensor is a crucial device in daily life; therefore, in the present study, a novel humidity sensor was designed to increase its specific surface area to improve its humid sensing capacity and conductivity. Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiNP)
Xin Tong   +7 more
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The dirty man of Europe? Rubbish, recycling and consumption work in England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
England has been described as 'the dirty man of Europe'. However, the country's household recycling rate has been steadily increasing in the last decade, achieving a recycling rate of 42 per cent in 2011/12 compared to just 12 per cent in 2001/2 (DEFRA ...
Wheeler, Kathryn
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Climate change mitigation from increased paper recycling in Sweden: conserving forests or utilizing substitution?

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Communications
Climate change mitigation by increased paper recycling can alleviate the two-sided pressure on the Swedish forest sector: supplying growing demands for wood-based products and increasing the forest carbon sink.
Maximilian Schulte   +5 more
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Use of Secondary Cellulose Fibers as a Replacement for the Basic Components of Core Insulators of Vacuum Insulation Panels

open access: yesRecycling
The ever-increasing requirements in the field of energy efficiency of buildings imply the necessity of using an ever-increasing amount of insulation in building structures.
Jiří Zach   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Recycling in Brasil: Paper and Plastic Supply Chain

open access: yesResources, 2017
Although recycling is considered the core of a circular economy for returning materials to the supply chain, its procedures are poorly understood. Waste recycling is considered a big source of energy saving and a promoter of CO2 recovery.
Jacqueline Elizabeth Rutkowski   +1 more
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