Showing papers in "Journal of Cleaner Production in 2014"

TL;DR: In this article, sustainable business models (SBM) incorporate a triple bottom line approach and consider a wide range of stakeholder interests, including environment and society, to drive and implement corporate innovation for sustainability, can help embed sustainability into business purpose and processes, and serve as a key driver of competitive advantage.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the factors that give rise to food waste throughout the food supply chain, and propose a framework to identify and prioritize the most appropriate options for prevention and management of food waste.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the heterogeneous picture research has drawn within the past 20 years with a focus on the innovation practices including different types of SOIs and strategic sustainability behaviors of SMEs through an interdisciplinary, systematic review in a time frame between 1987 and 2010.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present feasibility and constraints of applying industrial symbiosis in recovering waste from food processing, focusing on recycling (excluding energy recovery) of the solid and liquid waste from the food processing industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the feasibility of using the date palm fibers in the natural fiber reinforced polymer composites (NFC) for automotive industry was reported, and a gap was identified in the way of evaluating NFC relative to comprehensive desired criteria.

TL;DR: In this paper, the substitution of iron in an iron oxide with other transition metals as a mean to improve the properties of the iron oxide towards higher performance for contaminant degradation is discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of green machining including the cutting fluid type as well as the methods to apply the cutting fluids in machining process is made regarding an attempt was made regarding of green manufacturing including cutting fluid types and its machining conditions are critically important in order to maximize the efficiency of cutting fluids.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored a range of product life extension strategies and concluded that tailored approaches are needed to determine when to apply which product life-extension strategy and how to apply them.

TL;DR: Insects appear to be a sustainable source of protein with an appealing quantity and quality and acceptable nutritive properties and the use of insects as a sustainable protein rich feed ingredient in diets is technically feasible, and opens new perspectives in animal feeding.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a decision-support framework for assessing and identifying the most sustainable energy options for future electricity supply in Mexico by considering three sustainability dimensions: environmental, economic and social.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed twenty-one studies that address the LCA of hydrogen production technologies, a majority of them employing electrolytic technologies, and concluded that electrolysis using wind or hydropower generated electricity is the best hydrogen production technology compared to those using conventional grid electricity mix or fossil fuel feedstocks.

TL;DR: In this article, a factor analysis based on the I = P*A*T formula demonstrates how optimistic the assumptions regarding future technologies must be to support the green growth concept, and the authors pledge for a pragmatic, risk avoiding approach by slimming the physical size of the economy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the state-of-the-art of research into the links between Lean Management, Supply Chain Management and Sustainability with a view to: identifying the topic set studied and contributing a criterion for classifying the literature, discussing the empirical evidence and orienting future research.

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic literature review on environmentally sustainable product innovation was conducted and the authors identified four main critical success factors for green product innovation: market, law and regulation knowledge, interfunctional collaboration, innovation-oriented learning, and R&D investments.

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical framework of green consumer behavior was developed to determine the effects of personal influence, knowledge of green consumption, attitudes toward green consumption and internal and external moderators and examined whether these effects differ significantly among purchasing, using and recycling behaviors.

TL;DR: Considering variable energy prices during one day, a mathematical model to minimize energy consumption costs for single machine production scheduling during production processes was proposed in this paper, where genetic algorithm technology has been utilized.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review on the current knowledge on the properties, reactivity and mobility in porous media of nZVI and their application to groundwater remediation is presented, where a specific focus is devoted to the methodologies to the colloidal stability of the NZVI slurries and to the available numerical tools for the simulation of laboratory and field scale mobility of the particles when injected in a porous media.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the differences between the factors influencing green and non-green innovations for SMEs in a Low-Tech sector based on quantitative analysis and find that technological capabilities such as R&D and human capital foster the conventional innovation but not the green innovation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the interrelationships among three types of eco-innovation (process, product, organizational) and their relative impact on business performance and found that eco-organizational innovation has the strongest effect on the business performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of alternative tailings management methods that aim to improve environmental, social and economic outcomes, including paste and thickened tailings; tailings reuse, recycling and reprocessing; and proactive management.

TL;DR: A comparison between movements for technologies for social inclusion now and appropriate technology in the past reveals three enduring challenges for grassroots innovation: attending to local specificities whilst simultaneously seeking wide-scale diffusion; being appropriate to existing situations that one ultimately seeks to transform; and, working with project-based solutions to goals (of social justice) whose root causes rest in structures of economic and political power as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used green tea (GT-Fe) and eucalyptus leaves (EL-Fe extracts, which regarded as cleaner productions can be used for the efficient removal of nitrate.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UN DESD) is presented, focusing on the role of UNESCO ESD Chairs in advancing sustainability-oriented learning and competences in higher education.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive methodology to develop sustainable value stream mapping by identifying suitable metrics and methods to visually present them, which is validated through the application to an industry case study.

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed analysis of the current situation, characteristics and, most important of all, the decision-making process of sustainable consumption behaviors (SCB) of the rural residents in China Data were gathered from surveys conducted in 35 different municipalities or counties, with a total of 1403 questionnaires randomly distributed in 50 villages among these 35 selected regions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate the successful repair of defective voids in turbine airfoils based on a new semi-automated geometric reconstruction algorithm and a laser direct deposition process.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of ecological affect and ecological knowledge on the green purchasing behavior of the young generation was empirically examined, and it was found that the ecological effect and knowledge are significant in determining young consumers' green involvement as well as their actual purchase.

TL;DR: In this paper, a competence approach was taken as a first step to link the worlds of education for entrepreneurship and for sustainability because they postulate that both, apparently different, worlds can reinforce each other.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of machining parameters such as cooling condition, cutting speed, feed rate and depth of cut on arithmetic average roughness (Ra) and average maximum height of the profile (Rz) when turning of AISI 1050 steel was investigated.

TL;DR: This article argued that the consumer is not the most salient agent in the production-consumption system, and so expecting the consumer through green consumerism to shift society towards sustainable consumption patterns is consumer scapegoatism.