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Mike Louw, Sally Farrah, Max Maxwell and Sam Tomkins
For this special issue, sustainability and safety are discussed through the tropes of both material and work process substitution. As an architecture and industrial design team, we examine the potential of William McDonough?s and Michael Braungart?s ?cra...
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S. Sayanthan, Hassimi Abu Hasan and Siti Rozaimah Sheikh Abdullah
Floating aquatic macrophytes have a high level of proficiency in the removal of various contaminants, particularly nutrients, from wastewater. Due to their rapid growth rates, it is imperative to ensure the safe removal of the final biomass from the syst...
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Lucas de Lima Casseres dos Santos, Jean Bruno Melo Silva, Luisa Soares Neves, Natalia dos Santos Renato, Julia Moltó, Juan Antonio Conesa and Alisson Carraro Borges
The scarcity of natural resources makes it essential to develop products that meet environmental requirements. This is also true for the water and wastewater treatment business, where even consolidated processes, such as coagulation and flocculation, mus...
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Techane Bosona
The increasing population pressure and demand for quality food, and the significant burden of agriculture on the environment, impede the sustainable development of the food sector. Understanding the environmental performance of different agricultural tec...
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Chisenga Emmanuel Mukosha, Jan Moudrý, Magdaléna Lacko-Barto?ová, Lucia Lacko-Barto?ová, Festus Onyebuchi Eze, Reinhard W. Neugschwandtner, Elnaz Amirahmadi, Jirí Lehejcek and Jaroslav Bernas
The demand for wheat production is increasing and is associated with environmental effects. To sustain the increased demand, there is a need to find sustainable methods of wheat production. The choice of cropping system can significantly affect the envir...
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Pujitha Ganapathi Chottemada, Arkamitra Kar and Patricia Kara De Maeijer
The scientific community is shifting its focus towards construction materials with a low carbon footprint, such as alkali-activated concrete (AAC). The present study conducts an environmental impact assessment using the cradle-to-grave approach to examin...
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Jacek Michalak
This article presents the results of analyzing environmental impact indicators of thirteen ceramic tile adhesives (CTAs). The analyzed data came from ten third-party-verified Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) created in 2016?2022. The paper exami...
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Oluwafemi E. Ige and Oludolapo A. Olanrewaju
Cement has long been recognized as an energy- and emission-intensive construction material. Cement production has recently experienced significant growth despite its high energy consumption, resource usage, and carbon emissions. This study aims to assess...
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Lisa A. Peterson, Patricia M. Gallagher and Sabrina Spatari
Life cycle assessment is used to systematically evaluate the environmental impact of underground plastic recharge chambers (RCs) used for stormwater management. Using cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment and a functional unit of 1 m3 stormwater capacity,...
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Ezra Kahn, Erin Antognoli and Peter Arbuckle
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a flexible and powerful tool for quantifying the total environmental impact of a product or service from cradle-to-grave. The US federal government has developed deep expertise in environmental LCA for a range of applicatio...
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