Systemic Circular Economy Solutions for Fiber Reinforced Composites
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031223519 | 472 Pages | PDF (True) | 14 MB
This open access book provides an overview of the work undertaken within the FiberEUse project, which developed solutions enhancing the profitability of composite recycling and reuse in value-added products, with a cross-sectorial approach. Glass and carbon fiber reinforced polymers, or composites, are increasingly used as structural materials in many manufacturing sectors like transport, constructions and energy due to their better lightweight and corrosion resistance compared to metals. However, composite recycling is still a challenge since no significant added value in the recycling and reprocessing of composites is demonstrated. FiberEUse developed innovative solutions and business models towards sustainable Circular Economy solutions for post-use composite-made products. Three strategies are presented, namely mechanical recycling of short fibers, thermal recycling of long fibers and modular car parts design for sustainable disassembly and remanufacturing. The validation of the FiberEUse approach within eight industrial demonstrators shows the potentials towards new Circular Economy value-chains for composite materials.

Circular Business Management in Sustainability
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031234626 | 461 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 25 MB
This book gathers research and best-practices concerning the achievement of sustainable development goals in both community generation and business growth. It highlights theorganizational aspects relating to the realization of green innovation. It covers models for optimizing the use of both natural and human resources.It reports on assessment methods and advanced models to analyze community and business performance in the context of sustainable development. Further, it proposes solutions toreduce the effects of environmental pollution, increase energy efficiency, and managing resources and waste, to foster sustainable development. Gathering the proceedings of the2nd International Conference on Sustainable, Circular Management and Environmental Engineering (ISCMEE 2022), held on October 19-20, 2022, as a hybrid event from İzmir, Turkey, this book offers a timely snapshot on circular business management knowledge and methods for both researchers and professionals in the field of engineering management, business and economics, and energy and environment.

Circular Cities : A Revolution in Urban Sustainability
by Jo Williams
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367748169 | 177 Pages | True PDF | 11.2 MB

Agriculture Waste Management and Bioresource
by Singh, Suruchi;Singh, Pardeep;Sharma, Anu;Choudhury, Moharana;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1119808138 | 412 pages | True PDF | 12.12 MB

Dusselier M Biodegradable Polymers in the Circular Plastics Economy 2022 | 12.78 MB
English | 487 Pages

Title: Biodegradable Polymers in the Circular Plastics Economy
Author: Michiel Dusselier
Year: 2022

Biotic Resources; Circular Bioeconomy Perspective
by Thallada Bhaskar
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032371005 | 253 pages | True PDF | 13.17 MB
This reference book provides advanced knowledge on sustainable biogenic waste management. It covers innovative waste processing technologies to produce biofuels, energy products, and biochemicals. To create a circular bioeconomy, it is imperative to develop processes where the waste generated through one process acts as a feedstock for the other. This book discusses the latest developments in biochemical and thermochemical methods of conversion and covers the potential of different kinds of biomass in more decentralized biorefineries. It describes sustainable solutions for a greener supplement to fossil resources. The book is meant for microbiologists, chemists, and biotechnologists.

Technology Meets Flowers: Unlocking the Circular and Digital Economy by Eric van Heck
English | July 1, 2021 | ISBN: 3030693023 | 244 pages | MOBI | 4.75 Mb
Why do the Dutch continue to play a central role in the global production, sales, and distribution of flowers? What are the origin and history of the bulb and flower industry in the Netherlands?

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032193271 | 273 pages | True PDF | 45.56 MB
Our planet is a closed system with limited material resources, yet our current economic model is designed in a one-way direction from resource extraction to disposal, leading to resource depletion. This book proposes a new economic model, offering an alternative to this linear 'take-make-waste' economy.
Material Matters shows a way of creating a circular economy by using the unlimited resources we have: renewable energy, data and intelligence. It describes a system based on circular business models centred on selling performance rather than ownership, designing products and buildings as resource banks and equipping products with a 'material passport' to ensure their usability for future generations. Businesses thereby become custodians of materials, rather than consumers of materials and sellers of products. The book evokes the vision of a radically new economic model based on a compelling narrative, supported with cases that have been developed in conjunction with major companies, for example, convincing Philips to sell light instead of lamps, saving energy and materials by creating a whole new business model, a case which has become iconic for the circular economy.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 978-3035621099 | 160 pages | PDF | 227.94 MB
Sustainability has advanced to become an overarching concern of daily life. At the same time, its ways and means are far from clear. As a holistic praxis, sustainability must combine technical and material as well as social, economic and ecological strategies that all too often have competing aims and priorities and complex interactions. In no other field can these factors and interactions be better observed, addressed and influenced than in architecture and building. Organising, planning and designing the built environment uniquely reflects the spectrum of sustainable action as a synthesis of gained experience, problem-solving and forward-looking strategies.
Each volume of "Building Better – Less – Different" examines two fundamental areas of sustainability and explores their specific dynamics and interactions. After an introductory overview, innovative methods and current developments are described and analysed in in-depth essays, international case studies and pointed commentaries. The sustainability criteria of efficiency ("better"), sufficiency ("less") and consistency ("different") form the framework for each book. Together, the five planned volumes provide a systematic and up-to-date compendium of sustainable building.

English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032230851 | 123 pages | True PDF EPUB | 12.93 MB
This book presents decision support tools that can be used in the early design stage to analyze the feasibility of a product and its components for remanufacturing. It also covers how to design a product specifically for remanufacturing and offers supporting case studies.