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The issue of waste in European manufacturing SMEs
(2011-10)
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) cumulatively cause 64% of total industrial pollution, and contribute approximately 60-70% of the total industrial waste in the EU. However, only 24% of SMEs in the EU are currently acting ...
Environmental analysis of the use of poultry manure as fuel for combustion on broiler farms: a case study.
(2014)
Fluidised Bed Combustion (FBC) technology is not new. It has been used in power plants for the last three decades and is considered very efficient for biomass combustion. The novelty of the FBC application in BHSL’s case ...
Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) in decision-making for end-of-life of products
(2015)
The proposed EU Waste from Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) Directive sets targets for the reuse and recycling of EEE reaching end-of-life (EOL). How a producer determines which is the best strategy for his/her ...
TraPSS methodology – a smart solution for manufacturing SMEs
(2010)
Manufacturing SMEs are under high pressure coming from the market and from environmental legislation. They need the ability to rapidly and effectively change the business in response to opportunities and threats from the ...
Business sustainability framework for European manufacturing SMEs
(2011)
SMEs find it difficult to deal with environmental issues due mainly to their limited resources in terms of money, people and time. Our research also identified other barriers to engaging SMEs in environmental improvement ...
Applying pedagogical approaches to enhance learning: linking self-regulated and skill-based learning with support from moodle extensions
(2013)
This paper provides an overview of the linkage of two pedagogical approaches; Skills-based Learning and Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) supported by software. In linking these approaches, adaptive skills-based learning tools ...
Environmental challenges for European manufacturing SMEs
(2010)
Many owner/managers of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) do not believe that their business operations have a negative impact on the environment. However, cumulatively their effect is considerable; the SME sector is ...
Leveraging the green economy: recovering contaminated wood as pallet blocks
(2010)
The market for clean wood has been growing in the last years; however, waste wood hasn’t been considered a resource mainly because it usually arises as part of a mixed waste stream and it is predominantly contaminated, ...