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Zeolite versus other tanning systems: A life cycle and end-of-life perspective

Cleaner Engineering and Technology
This study evaluates zeolite-based tanning systems as sustainable alternatives to conventional methods from both life cycle and end-of-life perspectives.
Ivo Reetz, Francina Izquierdo, Grau Baquero, Anna Bacardit   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Characteristic of Chrome-Tanned and Vegetable-Tanned Goat Garment Leathers

Jurnal Peternakan
ABSTRACT. Chrome tanning material is still widely used in the tanning process for garment leather production. Its use began to be reduced to overcome its negative environment impact. Vegetable tannin of a mimosa and tara combination was used in this study to substitute chrome tanning material.
Nur Mutia Rosiati, Laili Rachmawati, Mustafidah Udkhiyati   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

REPRESENTING POLLUTION AT THE AGRARIAN–URBAN FRONTIER: Participatory Documentary Film‐Making in Bar Elias, Lebanon

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The Beqaa Valley in Lebanon has become increasingly polluted, and residents are attributing illness to improper waste disposal and dumping. This article explores local epistemologies of pollution’s causes and effects in three films, which were researched and produced by local residents of Bar Elias, a small town in the Beqaa, which has rapidly
Hannah Sender, Hanna Baumann, Joana Dabaj   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tannin Fingerprinting in Vegetable Tanned Leather by Solid State NMR Spectroscopy and Comparison with Leathers Tanned by Other Processes

Molecules, 2011
Solid state 13C-NMR spectra of pure tannin powders from four different sources – mimosa, quebracho, chestnut and tara – are readily distinguishable from each other, both in pure commercial powder form, and in leather which they have been used to tan ...
Jan H. van der Westhuizen, David G. Reid, Melinda J. Duer, Susan L. Bonnet, Frederik H. Romer, Andrew P. Underwood, Nadine D. Senekal   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

When grassroots innovation movements encounter mainstream institutions: implications for models of inclusive innovation [PDF]

, 2014
Grassroots innovation movements (GIMs) can be regarded as initiators or advocates of alternative pathways of innovation. Sometimes these movements engage with more established science, technology and innovation (STI) institutions and development agencies
Chesbrough H., Cozzens Susan, de Mello L., Freeman Chris, Hess David, Prahalad C. K., Schön Donald A., Sennet Richard, Smith A, Utz A., Varma R, Weinberg Alvin   +11 more
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How Changing Food Preferences and Technology Are Transforming Food Markets

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The foods that consumers purchase and how they purchase food are changing over time. In this article, we discuss how health prioritization and environmental concerns, combined with new technologies, are changing consumers' food preferences and retail choices.
Jill J. McCluskey, Jillian Hyink
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable leather tanning with Pontederia crassipes tannin: A promising eco-friendly alternative

Cleaner Engineering and Technology
Considering the considerable environmental impact resulting from basic chromium sulfate, the exploration of vegetable tanning materials as an eco-friendly alternative has gained substantial interest.
Md Asif Mustafa, Md Ashikur Rahaman Noyon, Md Elias Uddin, Rashedul Islam   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Systemic medications associate with surgically treated cataract among adults over 50 years in Finland

Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose To identify associations between systemic drugs and cataract surgery in Finland. Methods A historic cohort study based on administrative data. Endpoint event was cataract surgery. Use of drugs in question was based on redeemed prescriptions and consisted of 156 drugs.
Antti Riikonen, Jari Haukka, Tuomas Lilius, Sirpa Loukovaara   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating multiple objectives, partners, and jurisdictions: Decision analysis for range‐wide conservation planning for an at‐risk species

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
We describe a collaborative, multi‐partner, multi‐objective structured decision making process to develop a range‐wide conservation planning framework to recover an at‐risk species—the gopher frog. The process identified optimal, site‐specific management strategies that balanced population outcomes and cost, depending on the weight decision makers ...
Brian A. Crawford, John C. Maerz, Clinton T. Moore   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source