Reverse Logistics (RL) of end-of-use/end-of-life products has become a vital part of circular
economy practices for manufacturers. However, significant quantities of resources are still …

During the last two decades, EU legislation has put increasing pressure on member
countries to achieve specified recycling targets for municipal household waste. These …

Reverse logistics is the backward process of collecting and redistributing products at the end-
of-life from customers to producers and manufacturers for reuse, remanufacturing and …

There are numerous unresolved research questions, along with ongoing debates, regarding
how to achieve a circular economy and at what level. The forthcoming circular economy …

The objective of this article is to describe the first phase of the implementation of the Sectoral
Agreement of Reverse Logistics of Packaging in Brazil, from the perspective of the transition …

Recent research and initiatives increasingly propose a new approach, based on distributed
plastic recycling for open-source (OS) 3D printing technologies, as a way to deal with the …

Background: Infectious disease epidemiology and planetary health literature often cite solid
waste and plastic pollution as risk factors for vector-borne diseases and urban zoonoses; …

In scientific literature two large, partly overlapping areas regarding the environmental and
economical attractive removal of waste coexist: reverse logistics and waste management …

Biodegradable starch-based film has been widely used as alternative to packaging derived
from fossil sources. The composition, structural and morphological properties of starch …

Solid waste collection (SWC) has been one of the growing challenges throughout the world
due to the development of urbanization and uncontrolled growth of the population. It is a …