Showing papers in "Journal of Cleaner Production in 2021"

TL;DR: In this article, a brief review on the use, theory and future perspectives of conventional, as well as novel materials towards heavy metal adsorption in wastewater treatment application is presented.

TL;DR: This review discussed classification, mechanisms, benefits and adverse effects of the pesticides on both human beings and the environment, and some remedial measures to mitigate their toxicity.

TL;DR: In this paper, a critical review of chitosan-based materials for the removal of pharmaceutical compounds is presented. But, the results of the review are limited to three categories: antibiotics (tetracycline, amoxicillin, etc.), non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (diclofenac, ibuprofen, etc.) and other pharmaceutical compounds.

TL;DR: The heterogeneous effects of trade openness indicate that trade openness positively impacts the decoupling economic growth from carbon emission in rich countries, but negatively impacts poor countries, and Targeted policy implications are presented that enable the decOUpling economicrowth from carbon emissions for countries with different income levels.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present empirical and numerical analyses of thermal performance development in flat plate solar collectors (FPSCs) and provide a complete overview of the up-to-date developments, methods, critical economic factors, the significance of solar water heating, and the challenges faced by the implementations of such solar energy heating systems.

TL;DR: Arsenic contamination has been widely recognized as one of the most consequential environmental pollutants due to its anthropogenic activities and its associated removal techniques have become the focus of many institutions, including industries, environmental groups, and the general public.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper focused on MSW in eight eastern coastal regions in China on the aspects of background information (MSW generation, population, gross domestic product (GDP)/gross regional product (GRP)), related laws (acts, regulations), MSW characteristics (composition, separation, collection, transport) and TTRU.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the nexus between economic complexity, fossil fuels energy and ecological footprint in the United States and find that economic complexity and fossil fuel energy consumption significantly enhance the ecological footprint.

TL;DR: It is shown that blockchain technology can contribute to the circular economy by helping to reduce transaction costs, enhance performance and communication along the supply chain, ensure human rights protection, enhance healthcare patient confidentiality and welfare, and reduce carbon footprint.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of biomass energy consumption, fossil fuel energy consumption and economic growth on CO2 emissions in the transportation sector of the USA was investigated using the Spectral Breitung-Candelon causality test.

TL;DR: The key findings provide inclusive insights for governments, authorities, practitioners, and policy-makers to alleviate the pandemic’s negative impacts on sustainable development and to realize the sustainability transition opportunities post COVID-19.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conduct a meta-analysis and systematic review of 362 research papers published in the well known peer-reviewed journals in the last sixteen years (2004-2019).

TL;DR: In this article, a review scrutinizes the key roles of biochar as an additive and emphasizes the influences of bio-char characteristics on the anaerobic digestion processes and their capability to address the foremost challenges.

TL;DR: In this article, the main components and roles of renewable energy resources (such as solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower, ocean, and biofuels) for the smart city were fully introduced.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the nonlinear link between innovation and CO2 emissions in nine (9) African nations from 1990 to 2016 at both panel and individual country level.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify a few potential drivers of blockchain technology adoption, considering the grape wine supply chain and employing a rating-based conjoint analysis, and find that dis-intermediation, traceability, price, trust, compliance, and coordination and control in order of their relative importance and utilities can influence the supply chain actors' adoption-intention decision processes.

TL;DR: It is noteworthy that the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic had a greater influence on sustainable consumption, followed by environmental awareness, and to a lesser extent, on social responsibility.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper used stochastic frontier analysis and Malmquist index methods to estimate provincial GTFPs of China during 2000-2016, and then, Spatial Durbin model is used to find out their spatial effect of green technology innovation on green total factor productivity from regional perspective.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the long run and short-run impacts of per capita income, renewable energy, life expectancy, and population density on the ecological footprint in the eight developing countries of South and Southeast Asia from 1990-2015.

TL;DR: Based on the panel data of China's provincial agriculture, the authors used the Super-SBM model to calculate China's agricultural green total factor productivity based on carbon emissions, and the results showed that agricultural carbon emissions show an inverted-U trend, but the overall growth rate shows a gradual declining trend.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the impact of digital finance on energy-environmental performance in China and found that digital finance has a greater stimulus effect on energy environment performance where credit and capital markets are more immature.

TL;DR: A global and extensive review is made here to provide an overall view of concrete sustainability in all possible paths and to open the minds of the readers to the vastly unexplored world of “green concrete”.

TL;DR: How AI techniques outperform traditional models in controllability, big data handling, cyberattack prevention, smart grid, IoT, robotics, energy efficiency optimization, predictive maintenance control, and computational efficiency is explored.

TL;DR: Considering the heterogeneity of environmental regulation, the authors calculates the green innovation efficiency of 235 cities in Mainland China from 2004 to 2016, and builds a spatial measurement model based on the geographic weight matrix.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review on the synthesis and degradation of PLA, its applications in various sectors and manufacturing methods involved in PLA composites is presented, and different types of natural fibers and their influence on the unique properties of PLA based natural fiber reinforced composites are discussed.

TL;DR: A review of literature on the effects of using nanofluids (NFs) in energy systems is presented in this paper, where different types of NFs, including the combination of metal and non-metal particles of nanometer sizes with a base fluid, are introduced.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the recent development on the adsorption of organic dyes by metal-doped porous carbon materials was reviewed and the main objective of this paper was to sort out the dispersion information of metal-dyed porous carbon material widely used in organic dye adsorptions.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of advanced nonbiodegradable plastic waste (NPW) treatment technologies is presented, and an outlook for their industrial application based on the gap between the current development status and industry requirements is proposed.

TL;DR: This research proposes a novel simheuristic based on an integrated simulation-optimization approach, in which an efficient hybrid Genetic Algorithm is applied in order to optimize vehicle route planning for C&D waste collection from construction projects to recycling facilities.

TL;DR: In this article, the applicability of conventional environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) with an extension for the case of emerging industrialized economies, comprised of China, India, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Indonesia, and Turkey, for annual time frequency from 1995 to 2016.