Electric car battery: An overview on global demand, recycling and future approaches towards sustainability

LS Martins, LF Guimarães, ABB Junior… - Journal of environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Li-ion batteries are daily present in our electronic devices. These batteries are used in
electric and hybrid vehicles supporting the current agreements to decrease greenhouse gas …

Systematic literature review on behavioral barriers of climate change mitigation in households

G Stankuniene, D Streimikiene, GL Kyriakopoulos - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Achieving climate change mitigation goals requires the mobilization of all levels of society.
The potential for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from households has not yet …

[PDF][PDF] The global e-waste monitor

CP Baldé, V Forti, V Gray, R Kuehr… - … Union (ITU) & …, 2017 - researchgate.net
Since January 2022, Sustainable Cycles (SCYCLE) has been a programme under the
United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Division for Planet. SCYCLE's …

Energy poverty and low carbon just energy transition: comparative study in Lithuania and Greece

D Streimikiene, GL Kyriakopoulos, V Lekavicius… - Social Indicators …, 2021 - Springer
EU has set ambitious commitment to achieve low carbon energy and economy transition up
to 2050. This low carbon transition means sustainable energy development path based on …

[PDF][PDF] Update on the Status of LED-Lighting world market since 2018

G Zissis, P Bertoldi, T Serrenho - … Office of the …, 2021 - publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu
This report, based on the compilation of more than 160 recent documents, is an update of
previous analysis published by the JRC in 2018, 2014 and 2013. It brings new insight into …

Evaluating circular economy under a multi-parametric approach: A technological review

GL Kyriakopoulos, VC Kapsalis, KG Aravossis… - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
A circular economy (CE) is conceptualized under different rounds of materials and energy
cycling flows and is a matter of a three-level deployment: inter-enterprise circulation …

Fluorescent lamps: A review on environmental concerns and current recycling perspectives highlighting Hg and rare earth elements

LN Viana, APS Soares, DL Guimarães… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The presence of Hg and the high consumption of fluorescent lamps (FL) have increased
environmental concerns. However, other toxic and potentially toxic elements, like rare earth …

Urban mining of terbium, europium, and yttrium from real fluorescent lamp waste using supercritical fluid extraction: Process development and mechanistic …

J Zhang, J Anawati, G Azimi - Waste Management, 2022 - Elsevier
There is a significant global push towards recycling of waste electrical and electronic
equipment (WEEE) to enable the circular economy. In this study an environmentally …

Energy and economic performance assessment of efficiency measures in zero-energy office buildings in Greece

P Pallis, K Braimakis, TC Roumpedakis… - Building and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The present study includes a combined assessment of the energy efficiency and economic
performance of energy measures in five-story existing and newly constructed office buildings …

[HTML][HTML] Transforming sorted and performance of waste recovery companies: Circular Economy, Sustainability Technology and SDGs

A Ferradás-González, C Pérez-Rico… - Sustainable Technology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Waste management is now a major global concern. Therefore, the circular economy (CE)
and sustainable technology have become the necessary means of achieving sustainable …