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Smart alginate nanomaterials: Revolutionizing food across delivery, preservation, packaging, safety, and waste upcycling

Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications
As the global population grows, the demand for safe food security aligned with sustainable development objectives becomes increasingly critical. This review delves into the innovative design techniques of stimuli-responsive smart alginate nanomaterials ...
Shweta Rathee, Kshitij RB Singh, Sadhucharan Mallick, Jay Singh, Shyam S. Pandey, Ankur Ojha, Ravindra Pratap Singh   +6 more
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Corporate Decarbonization via Technology and Management

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study provides a comprehensive overview of key findings on decarbonization, advanced technologies, and management strategies, highlighting emerging themes shaping the field. Advanced technologies enhance carbon reduction through efficiency, real‐time monitoring, and optimizing resource optimization.
Heidy Montero‐Teran, Rudolf R. Sinkovics, Olli Kuivalainen   +2 more
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Consumers' Intention to Use Circular Business Models: A Configurational Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular business models (CBMs) integrate ecological sustainability and resource efficiency into core business strategies, but their success depends on consumers' intention to use. Grounded in expectancy–value theory, this study investigates how product‐related factors (perceived usefulness, convenience, value for money, and performance risk ...
Christof Falkenberg, Christian Garaus, Raphaela Hellmayr, Siegfried Pöchtrager, Petra Riefler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adventurous Upcrafting Ventures

Cubic Journal, 2018
Since 2015, the Research Institute of Organic Treasures (R.I.O.T.) has combined fermentation practices and social experimentation in Hong Kong to give biological byproducts from human and urban metabolisms a regenerative purpose.
Markus Wernli
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Consumer Resistance to Circular Fashion: A Systematic Literature Review of Consumer Barriers and Innovation Resistance in Circular Business Models

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition toward circular fashion is widely promoted as a pathway to sustainable development, yet consumer resistance continues to hinder the adoption of circular business models across resale, rental, repair, and remaking. Existing research identifies numerous consumer barriers, but insights remain fragmented, model‐specific, and largely
Sophie Rasfeld
wiley   +1 more source

Electrocatalysis‐driven sustainable plastic waste upcycling

Electron
With large quantities and natural resistance to degradation, plastic waste raises growing environmental concerns in the world. To achieve the upcycling of plastic waste into value‐added products, the electrocatalytic‐driven process is emerging as an ...
Gaihong Wang, Zhijie Chen, Wei Wei, Bing‐Jie Ni   +3 more
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Bridging Academic Research and Business Practices at the Crossroad of Circular Economy and the SDGs

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global shift toward sustainability has amplified interest in the Circular Economy, which aims to optimize resource use and minimize waste. In parallel, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a universal framework for addressing social, environmental, and economic challenges.
Corentin Juin, Andrea Nicolodi
wiley   +1 more source

Creative upcycling as a pedagogical strategy for textile waste management at Bawku Technical Institute in Ghana

Discover Environment
The global fashion industry generates significant waste, threatening environmental sustainability, with Ghana receiving large volumes of second-hand clothing, much of which becomes waste.
Sulemana Gariba Osman, Dickson Adom, Nyamawero Navei, Joe Adu-Agyem   +3 more
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Upcycling Strategies for Resilience Reconstruction Goals: A Case Study of an Italian Public Building

Buildings
This study examines the economic and financial implications of the upcycling process and Design for Disassembly (DfD) applied to an “authorial” building.
Francesco Tajani, Alberto Bologna, Giuseppe Cerullo, Endriol Doko, Francesco Sica   +4 more
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The Fast, the Steady and the Tenacious: Funding Pathways for Circular Start‐Ups

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Circular start‐ups (CSUs) are critical for unlocking the circular economy, yet they face persistent barriers in accessing finance. Despite growing interest from policymakers and financing institutions, little empirical evidence explains how these ventures pursue and secure funding.
Pilar Mejía‐Vélez, Wim Van Opstal, Christina Bidmon, Saskia Manshoven, Julian Kirchherr   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source