Environmental impact of textile reuse and recycling – A review
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In this article, a review of the literature on textile reuse and recycling is presented, where the authors provide a summary of the current knowledge and point out several areas for further research.About:
This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2018-05-20 and is currently open access. It has received 467 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Reuse & Life-cycle assessment.read more
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Exploring Industry 4.0 technologies to enable circular economy practices in a manufacturing context: A business model proposal
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how rising technologies from Industry 4.0 can be integrated with circular economy (CE) practices to establish a business model that reuses and recycles wasted material such as scrap metal or e-waste.
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The environmental price of fast fashion
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Lead toxicity: Health hazards, influence on food Chain, and sustainable remediation approaches
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TL;DR: Among different Pb-remediation approaches, certain advanced approaches such as microbial assisted phytoremediation which could possibly minimize the Pb load from the resources in a sustainable manner and would be a viable option to ensure a safe food production system are highlighted.
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Hazardous heavy metals contamination of vegetables and food chain: Role of sustainable remediation approaches - A review
Sandeep Kumar,Shiv Prasad,Krishna Kumar Yadav,Manoj Shrivastava,Neha Gupta,Shivani Nagar,Quang-Vu Bach,Hesam Kamyab,Shakeel A. Khan,Sunita Yadav,Lal Chand Malav +10 more
TL;DR: It is identified that use of nanoremediation and combined biotechnological and, transgenic methods could help to enhance phytoremediations efficiency in a sustainable way.
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The circular economy in the textile and apparel industry: A systematic literature review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify four themes, drivers, barriers, practices, and indicators of sustainable performance when applying a circular economy in the textile and apparel industry, and establish a conceptual model based on these four themes to illustrate the relationship between them.
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