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The Effects of Information and Container Proximity on Paper Recycling [PDF]

, 1997
Contrary to popular belief, paper products are the one material that has actually increased (in percent of total waste) in U.S. landfills in the past 25 years (Rathje, Hughes, Archer, Wilson & Casselles, 1989).
Carlisle \u2797, Todd
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Daur ulang limbah shaving industri penyamakan kulit untuk kertas seni

Majalah Kulit, Karet, dan Plastik, 2012
A research has been done on recycling of shavings waste for art paper. The aim of this research was to utilize shaving waste from tanning industry for making art paper in order not to pollute the environment, and to add raw materials to the manufacture
Sri Sutyasmi
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How a Fee Per-Unit Garbage Affects Aggregate Recycling in a Model with Heterogeneous Households [PDF]

This paper develops a utility maximizing model of household choice among garbage disposal, recycling, and littering. The impact of a user fee for garbage collection is modelled for heterogeneous households with different preferences for recycling.
Don Fullerton, Thomas C. Kinnaman
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A sustainable superhydrophobic paper enabled by CD-MOF/PDMS synergistic engineering for highly efficient oil/water separation

Industrial Crops and Products
Traditional oil/water separation materials are greatly limited by poor eco-friendly, high energy consumption, and tedious preparation process. To address these issues, a sustainable superhydrophobic paper-based material (PDMS-CP@γ-CD-MOF) was developed ...
Jiachuan Chen, Jiaming Fan, Kefeng Liu, Junchao Li, Qixiu Dong, Guihua Yang   +5 more
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Optimal Location of Two Laser-interferometric Detectors for Gravitational Wave Backgrounds at 100 MHz

, 2008
Recently, observational searches for gravitational wave background (GWB) have been developed and given constraints on the energy density of GWB in a broad range of frequencies.
Abbott B, Armstrong J W, Atsushi Nishizawa, Babusci D, Bisnovatyi-Kogan G S, Clarkson C, Cruise A M, Daisuke Tatsumi, Drever R W P, Dufaux J Bergman A Felder G Kofman L Uzan J, Easther R, Erina Nishida, Jenet F A, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Koji Arai, Masa-aki Sakagami, Nakamura T, Naoshi Sugiyama, Ryuichi Takahashi, Seiji Kawamura, Takeshi Chiba, Tashiro H, Tomotada Akutsu   +22 more
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Garbage and Recycling in Communities with Curbside Recycling and Unit-Based Pricing [PDF]

This paper estimates the impact of a user fee and a curbside recycling program on garbage and recycling amounts, allowing for the possibility of endogenous policy choices.
Don Fullerton, Thomas C. Kinnaman
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Recycling of paper, cardboard and its PFAS in Norway

Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been used in paper products since the 1960s. PFAS emissions during the life cycle of these products have been substantial sources of these substances to the environment.
Håkon A. Langberg, Hans Peter H. Arp, Gabriela Castro, Alexandros G. Asimakopoulos, Heidi Knutsen   +4 more
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Effective e-waste management-The role of international cooperation and fragementation [PDF]

E-waste problems related to trade in wastes and informal recycling in the developing countries address environmental, social, and economic effects. Moreover, given on multiple aspect considerations, it is found that currently recycling fragmentation ...
Chen, Yenming, Wu, Tien-Hua
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A 'symbiosis effect' perspective to understand reverse logistics and household recycling waste systems [PDF]

Paper presented at 19th ISL, 2014, Ho Chi Minh The essence of the problem with waste is that it is by definition something that is not wanted. We argue here that achieving a sustainable solution requires consideration of both regulatory responsibilities ...
A-Jalil, Emy Ezura, Deutz, Pauline, Grant, David, Nicholson, John   +3 more
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Curbside Recycling: Waste Resource or Waste of Resources? [PDF]

In this paper, we estimate the social net benefits of curbside recycling. Benefits are estimated using survey data on household willingness to pay (WTP) from over 4,000 households across 40 western U.S. cities.
Arthur J. Caplan, David Aadland
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