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From Regulatory Pressure to Green Innovation: A Cognitive Perspective from China's Plastic Industry

by Zhang Caihua Zhang Zhuang Zhao Kunjian Lei Xue

Environmental management and policy

Environmental regulations aim to stimulate green innovation, yet the cognitive mechanisms through which policies influence corporate decisions remain poorly understood. This study investigates how environmental regulations transform corporate behavior through management cognition pathways using...

Environmental Management Environmental planning +3 more

Research on Regulatory Strategies of Green Finance and Optimization of Corporate Green Behavior under the Framework of Circular Economy

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Xue Lei et al. View all

Issue 4

Circular Economy and Bioeconomy

The green finance market, as an integral part of the circular economy, significantly influences environmental protection and sustainable development. This study explores regulatory issues concerning corporate "greenwashing" behavior in this market, aiming to devise effective regulatory strategies to...

Green Finance Corporate Green Behavior +3 more

Development of a novel green waste compost stability monitoring method using the CIELAB color model

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Dimosthenis Tsivas et al. View all

Issue 3

Solid Waste Management

Compost stability is an essential parameter of composting. Recent studies have shown that the color of compost is influenced by the initial characteristics of the main organic substrates. In this study, the progression of CIELAB color variables and typical compost stability and maturity indices were...

Green Waste composting CIELAB color model +1 more

Bioethanol (environment support fuel) production and optimization from pineapple peel and banana peel

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Dr.N.Kanthavelkumaran et al. View all

Issue 9

Environmental management and policy

The goal of this investigation was to focus on the viability of synchronous aging of natural product waste with Aspergillus Niger TISTR 3063 co-societies producing ethanol. Additionally noted was how the aging temperature affected the yield of ethanol. Peels from pineapple and banana were used as...

Pineapple peels Banana peels +4 more

Optimization Approach to Evaluate the Solar, UV and LED Visible Light Fenton Processes for Pollutant Degradation in Landfill Leachate

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ARULMATHI P et al. View all

Issue 2

Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

In the current study, three different photo-assisted sources were used to evaluate the photo-Fenton oxidation process for the pollutant degradation of mature landfill leachate. Solar, UV, and LED visible light photo sources were adopted in this Fenton process. Fenton dosages (FeSO4 : H2O2) 1:30, 1.5...

landfill leachate UV +3 more

Evaluation of the aerobic and anaerobic degradation of an industrial effluent from vegetable tannery processing of leather on batch reactors

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Angelis Dimakis A. et al. View all

Issue 1

Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

In this study, the aerobic and anaerobic biodegradability of the industrial wastewater from the vegetable tanning process were evaluated. Water from a food wastewater treatment system was used as seed inoculum for the aerobic process and mature granular methanogenic sludge from a brewery industrial...

Tannery wastewater tannins +3 more

Particle-based modeling and meshless simulation of flows with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

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Filippos Sofos et al. View all

Issue 4

Protection and restoration of the environment

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a promising simulation technique in the family of Lagrangian mesh-free methods, especially for flows that undergo large deformations. Particle methods do not require a mesh (grid) for their implementation, in contrast to conventional Computational Fluid...

SPH Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics +4 more

Optimizing operation of a large-scale pumped storage hydropower system coordinated with wind farm by means of genetic algorithms

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Bakanos P.I. et al. View all

Issue 4

Protection and restoration of the environment

Due to the intermittent and fluctuating nature of wind and other renewable energy sources, their integration into electricity systems requires large-scale and flexible storage systems to ensure uninterrupted power supply and to reduce the percentage of produced energy that is discarded or curtailed...

Pumped-storage hydropower plant multi-reservoir systems +3 more

Potential causes of high performance of pure-oxygen aerobic granules in SBR under high organic loading condition

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Jiang Y.B. et al. View all

Issue 4

Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

Aerobic granules were cultivated using pure oxygen aeration (POAG) in SBR for wastewater treatment under high organic loading condition (HOLC) to reveal its performance and potential causes. Compared to conventional granules and activated sludge, mature POAG with more compact and dense structure...

Pure-oxygen aerobic granules High organic loading +4 more

Recycling of three different types of rural wastes employing vermicomposting technology by Eisenia fetida at low temperature

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seyyed Alireza Mousavi et al. View all

Issue 4

Solid Waste Management

This study was conducted to investigate the recycling of rural wastes employing vermicomposting technology by Eisenia fetida. Three medium including kitchen waste, rotting foliage and cow dung were performed in 20 treatments. Results showed that in all 20 treatments the quality of produced compost...

Waste Cow dung +3 more

Effect of soil scarification on natural regeneration of mature scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) stands in Greece

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Grigoriadis Nikolaos et al. View all

Issue 4

Environmental management and policy

The natural regeneration of Scots pine stands at the Sarakatsana location in the Pieria Mountains improved considerably after the removal of the dense ground vegetation followed mechanical soil scarification. The experimental design consisted of replications on scarified and non-scarified soil. The...

Regeneration Silviculture +3 more

Multicriteria analysis of municipal solid wastes energy recovery technologies in Greece

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Kondili E., Bartsis J., Kapsali M. and Kaldellis J.K.

Issue 2

General

Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management is the field of science which explores and evolves strategies minimizing the final amount of wastes delivered to landfills and reducing the corresponding pollution related to all stages of treatment and collection. In the best practices of MSW the inherent...

energy recovery from MSW Waste-to-Energy plants +3 more

Co-composting of meat packing wastewater sludge and organic fraction of municipal solid waste

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Bien J., Neczaj E. and Milczarek M.

Issue 4

General

The use of organic manures as amendments to improve soil organic matter level and long term soil fertility and productivity is gaining importance. The disposal of the great quantity of organic wastes produced by the municipal, agricultural and agroindustrial activities, is causing energetic...

Application of sludge, organic solid wastes and yard trimmings in aerobic compost piles

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Chazirakis P., Giannis A., Gidarakos E., Wang J.-Y. and Stegmann R.

Issue 4

General

The effects of different mixture ratios of sewage sludge (SS), organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) and yard trimmings (YT) on the performance of composting process were investigated in this study. The high water content and the proper carbon/nitrogen ratio make sludge ideal for this...

co-composting organic solid waste +3 more

Plant biomonitoring: impact of urban environment on seasonal dynamics of storage substances and chlorophylls of Oleander

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Meletiou-Christou M.S. , Banilas G.P., Bardisi C. and Rhizopoulou S.

Issue 4

General

In the present study seasonal changes of chlorophyll content and storage substances related to the metabolic response of the widespread, evergreen plant oleander (Nerium oleander) to air pollution were investigated. Mature leaves of oleander shrubs, grown at five sites of differing levels of air...

air pollution carbohydrates +4 more

Microbial community dynamics and stability assessment during green waste composting

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Gazi A.V., Kyriacou A., Kotsou M. and Lasaridi K.E.

Issue 1

General

Green waste (leaves, grass and shredded twigs) was composted for 5.5 months in a wooden composting bioreactor, of 1 m3 capacity, using both passive convective aeration, facilitated by the design of the bioreactor, and manual turning. Temperature was measured daily, while samples were analysed for...

Green Waste composting stability +8 more