The fundamental links between climate change and marine plastic pollution

HV Ford, NH Jones, AJ Davies, BJ Godley… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Plastic pollution and climate change have commonly been treated as two separate issues
and sometimes are even seen as competing. Here we present an alternative view that these …

Recycling of bioplastics: routes and benefits

FM Lamberti, LA Román-Ramírez, J Wood - Journal of Polymers and the …, 2020 - Springer
Continual reduction of landfill space along with rising CO 2 levels and environmental
pollution, are global issues that will only grow with time if not correctly addressed. The lack …

Bioenergy and climate change mitigation: an assessment

F Creutzig, NH Ravindranath, G Berndes… - Gcb …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Bioenergy deployment offers significant potential for climate change mitigation, but also
carries considerable risks. In this review, we bring together perspectives of various …

Catalytic fast pyrolysis of agricultural residues and dedicated energy crops for the production of high energy density transportation biofuels. Part II: Catalytic research

S Douvartzides, ND Charisiou, W Wang… - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Catalytic fast pyrolysis (CFP) is an advanced controlled process of biomass thermal
decomposition designed to produce high volumes of ready-to-use transportation biofuels or …

Comparative life cycle assessment of fossil and bio-based polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles

L Chen, REO Pelton, TM Smith - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2016 - Elsevier
Both biofuels and bioplastics are often regarded as sustainable solutions to current
environmental problems such as climate change, fossil depletion and acidification …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of logging residue extraction for energy on ecosystem services and biodiversity: A synthesis

T Ranius, A Hämäläinen, G Egnell, B Olsson… - Journal of environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
We review the consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem services from the industrial-
scale extraction of logging residues (tops, branches and stumps from harvested trees and …

Review of carbon storage function of harvested wood products and the potential of wood substitution in greenhouse gas mitigation

A Geng, H Yang, J Chen, Y Hong - Forest Policy and Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
Global forests have the potential to significantly increase or reduce atmospheric greenhouse
gas (GHG) concentration. Harvested wood products (HWP) are an important part of the …

Sustainable forest biomass: A review of current residue harvesting guidelines

BD Titus, K Brown, HS Helmisaari… - Energy, Sustainability …, 2021 - Springer
Forest biomass harvesting guidelines help ensure the ecological sustainability of forest
residue harvesting for bioenergy and bioproducts, and hence contribute to social license for …

[HTML][HTML] How certain are greenhouse gas reductions from bioenergy? Life cycle assessment and uncertainty analysis of wood pellet-to-electricity supply chains from …

M Röder, C Whittaker, P Thornley - Biomass and Bioenergy, 2015 - Elsevier
Climate change and energy policies often encourage bioenergy as a sustainable
greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction option. Recent research has raised concerns about the …

[PDF][PDF] The burning question: Does forest bioenergy reduce carbon emissions? A review of common misconceptions about forest carbon accounting

MT Ter-Mikaelian, SJ Colombo, J Chen - Journal of Forestry, 2015 - biomassmurder.org
Critical errors exist in some methodologies applied to evaluate the effects of using forest
biomass for bioenergy on atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions. The most common error …