An Introduction to the Circular Economy

Buch | Hardcover

463 Seiten

2021
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-5361-9233-9 (ISBN)

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This book tries to debate on the significance of circular economy, underlying the necessity to change our way of producing, consuming, and traveling on a daily basis. The passage from a linear economy to a circular economy will help us to reduce the degradation of the environment for avoiding future disastrous consequences, such as depletion of biodiversity, scarcity of raw materials and drinking water, rising waters, etc. The circular economy, therefore, involves designing a product so that it can be recycled or its components reused. Reuse consists of introducing the product back into the economic circuit in its original condition; repair makes it possible to fix a broken good; and recovery consists of reusing its components. This is the significance of the so-called 3R strategy, illustrated in this book.

Foreword; Preface; Life Expectancy in the World and Relative Variables; Circular and Green Economy: Which is the Difference?; Past, Present and Future of Industrial Symbiosis; Development of Indicators of Circular Economy and their Application in Water Management; The Present Contribution of Circular Economy to Stimulate Economic Growth in the World; Circular Economy for a Healthy Living Environment; Circular Economy in China; Circular Economy in European Union as an Example of Wasteless Processing of Crustaceans Waste; Circular Economy: Valorization of Waste Plant Biomass to Produce Active Ingredients with Antimicrobial Activity Against Human and Plant Pathogens; The Circular Economy and Built Environment: Maintenance, Rehabilitation and Adaptive Reuse; Waste Valuation for Environmental and Health Improvement on Circular Economy View; Waste Recycling from Construction Sector within the Circular Economy Paradigm; Circular Economy of Wastewater Streams by Means of Membrane Technologies; Sustainable Food Production: The Transition Towards a Circular Economy of Plastic Food Packaging; Bioconverter Insects: A Good Example of Circular Economy, the Study Case of Hermetia Illucens; Chitin and Lignin Waste in the Circular Economy; The Use of Coffee Waste to Produce Goods and Energy; Natural Metabolites as Functional Additives of Biopolymers: Experimental Evidence and Industrial Constraint; Regenerated Cellulose Sheet as Natural Tissue to Make Biodegradable Baby Diapers; Waste Recycling for Wound Care and Cosmetic Smart Economics: Chitin and Lignin; Biobased and Biodegradable Rigid and Flexible Polymeric Packaging; Reuse and Recycling of Post-Consumer Textile Waste in Smart Green Cities; Circular Economy in the Fashion Sector and Textile Goods; Circular Economy in the Built Environment: A Strategy for Flexible Housing Through FlexZhouse.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.06.2021
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	1008 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-5361-9233-3 / 1536192333
ISBN-13	978-1-5361-9233-9 / 9781536192339
Zustand	Neuware