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Recycling of PET Bottles Into Different Types of Building Materials: A Review

Mohd Ikhmal Haqeem Hassan Aeslina Abdul Kadir Intan Seri Izzora Arzlan Mohd Razali Md Tomari Noor Azizi Mardi Mohd Fahrul Hassan Mohd Mustafa Al Bakri Abdullah M. Nabiałek B. Jeż
Archives of Metallurgy and Materials | 2022 | vol. 67 | No 1 | 189-196 | DOI: 10.24425/amm.2022.137488
Keywords PET bottles waste recycling fired clay brick concrete environmental management
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Abstract

In this globalized era, building materials play an essential role in the civil engineering field. Nowadays, with the increase in population, the demand for construction activities is also increasing. Polyethylene (PET) bottles are among the most widely used materials and cause an abundance of non-degradable waste, at about 0.94 million tonnes in Malaysia. One of the alternatives to reduce this waste's environmental impact is to incorporate it inside building materials such as brick and concrete. As PET bottles' recycling is highly promoted, the physical and mechanical properties of building materials made from PET bottles have also been reviewed. The data analysis shows that the compressive strength, flexural strength, split tensile strength and density of building materials decreases as the percentage of PET waste increases. However, other properties such as water absorption, initial absorption rate, and firing shrinkage increase proportionally with the PET waste. Besides, heavy metals in these building materials comply with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) standards. It can be concluded that the percentage of PET waste incorporated into brick and concrete must be less than 5% and 2%, respectively, to produce suitable materials to provide alternatives in reducing and recycling PET waste.
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Authors and Affiliations

Mohd Ikhmal Haqeem Hassan
1
ORCID: ORCID
Aeslina Abdul Kadir
1 2
ORCID: ORCID
Intan Seri Izzora Arzlan
1
ORCID: ORCID
Mohd Razali Md Tomari
3
ORCID: ORCID
Noor Azizi Mardi
3
ORCID: ORCID
Mohd Fahrul Hassan
4
ORCID: ORCID
Mohd Mustafa Al Bakri Abdullah
2
ORCID: ORCID
M. Nabiałek
5
ORCID: ORCID
B. Jeż
5
ORCID: ORCID
  1. Faculty of Civil Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia
  2. Center of Excellent Geopolymer and Green Technology (CEGeoGTech), Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Malaysia
  3. Faculty of Electric and Electronic, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia
  4. Faculty of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), 86400 Parit Raja, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia
  5. Department of Physics, Faculty of Production Engineering and Materials Technology, Częstochowa University of Technology, Al. Armii Krajowej 19,42-200 Częstochowa

Development of Renewable Energy Businesses within China’s Green Industry Framework

Rustem KORABAYEV Kazbek KORABAYEV
Management and Production Engineering Review | 2023 | vol. 14 | No 4 | DOI: 10.24425/mper.2023.147209
Keywords environmental management Economic development strategy environmental policy Greentechnology Clean production
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The main goal of the research is to develop a set of guidelines for the development of business within the framework of the green industry, in compliance with all current environmental regulations, as applied to the realities of the current economic situation in China. The methodology basis is a combination of system analysis of the key principles of business development within the framework of environmental strategy in China with a comprehensive analysis of green industry concept as a factor limiting the activities of enterprises to avoid environmental pollution. The results obtained in the research indicate the presence of significant results in the interaction of government and business in the framework of mutually beneficial collaboration for the growth of the green industry. Chinese business structures invest in the development of “green” industrial and manufacturing technologies while ensuring the necessary level of environmental protection.
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Rustem KORABAYEV
Kazbek KORABAYEV

Evapotranspiration, vapour pressure and climatic water deficit in Ethiopia mapped using GMT and TerraClimate dataset

Polina Lemenkova
Journal of Water and Land Development | 2022 | No 54 | 201-209 | DOI: 10.24425/jwld.2022.141573
Keywords cartography climatic water deficit environmental management Ethiopia evapotranspiration mapping vapour pressure
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In the present research, a scripting cartographic technique for the environmental mapping of Ethiopia using climate and topographic datasets is developed. The strength of the Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) is employed for the effective visualisation of the seven maps using high-resolution data: GEBCO, TerraClimate, WorldClim, CRUTS 4.0 in 2018 by considering the solutions of map design. The role of topographic characteristics for climate variables (evapotranspiration, downward surface shortwave radiation, vapour pressure, vapour pressure deficit and climatic water deficit) is explained. Topographic variability of Ethiopia is illustrated for geographically dispersed and contrasting environmental setting in its various regions: Afar, Danakil Depression, Ethiopian Highlands, Great Rift Valley, lowlands and Ogaden Desert. The relationships between the environmental and topographic variables are investigated with aid of literature review and the outcomes are discussed. The maps are demonstrated graphically to highlight variables enabling to find correlations between the geographic phenomena, their distribution and intensity. The presented maps honor the environmental and topographic data sets within the resolution of the data. Integration of these results in the interpretation maps presented here brings new insights into both the variations of selected climate variables, and the topography of Ethiopia.
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Authors and Affiliations

Polina Lemenkova
1
ORCID: ORCID
  1. Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), École polytechnique de Bruxelles (Brussels Faculty of Engineering), Laboratory of Image Synthesis and Analysis, Building L, Campus de Solbosch, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50, Brussels 1000, Belgium

Unveiling the Factors of Green Human Resources in Manufacturing Industries

V. SATHYAMOORTHI S.B. INAYATH AHAMED A. HARIHARASUDAN Katarzyna SZCZEPANSKA-WOSZCZYNA Sebastian KOT
Management and Production Engineering Review | 2023 | vol. 14 | No 3 | DOI: 10.24425/mper.2023.147190
Keywords Green human resources Green creativity Proactive environmental management Environmentalperformance Environmental practices
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The severe consequences of climate change have left many unanswered questions about the environmental performance of businesses. Appropriate measures must be taken to tackle the problems conquered due to climate change. This study supports exploring the factors needed to get the Employees Environmental Performance (EEP). It includes Green Human Resources (GHR), Green Creativity (GC) and Proactive Environmental Management (PEM). The relationship among the variables was explored in the existing literature. This study aims to test the relationship between GHR and GC. Further, it also examined the mediating role of GC and moderating role of PEM. For this purpose, data were collected from employees of manufacturing companies (automobiles, food processing, chemicals, textiles, machinery and equipment) in India. More specifically, ISO 14001-certified companies were selected. Among the different institutions, 35 are manufacturing in India. Out of 35, 24 companies agreed to conduct a survey in their company. Totally 5376 employees were considered as a population for the study. With 95% confidence interval, 400 samples were selected, and a questionnaire was distributed among them using simple random sampling. 305 (76.25%) cases finalized for further analysis. The collected data analyzed using PLS-SEM with R software. The results highlighted the essential role of GHR practices in the manufacturing industry to enhance EEP since GHR positively influences EEP. Moreover, it was found that GC partially mediates the relationship between GHR and EEP. It indicates the importance of GC’s existence in increasing EEP through GHR. Finally, it was also found that PEM moderates the relationship between GHR and EEP. It suggested the role of pro-environmental management and their active pace in improving EEP. Managerial implications and future scope were discussed in this study.
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Authors and Affiliations

V. SATHYAMOORTHI
1
S.B. INAYATH AHAMED
1
A. HARIHARASUDAN
2
Katarzyna SZCZEPANSKA-WOSZCZYNA
3
Sebastian KOT
4 5
  1. Kalasalingam Business School, Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Department of BusinessAdministration, India
  2. Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Faculty of English, India
  3. WSB University, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Management, Poland
  4. North-West University, Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences, South Africa
  5. Czestochowa University of Technology, Management Faculty, Czestochowa, Poland

The variability of natural and climatic conditions in investment projects in the field of nature management

Anatoliy Rokochinskiy Nadia Frolenkova Vasyl Turcheniuk Pavlo Volk Nataliіa Prykhodko Ruslan Tykhenko Ivan Openko
Journal of Water and Land Development | 2021 | No 48 | 48-54 | DOI: 10.24425/jwld.2021.136145
Keywords agricultural production environmental management forecasting and optimization models investment projects natural and climatic conditions water management and land reclamation systems
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The article focuses on the actual scientific and practical problem of accounting for the influence of meteorological and climatic factors in the technical and economic calculations in the field of environmental management. It has been proven that the introduction of scientifically sound and effective methods of using meteorological and cli-matic information in economic calculations significantly reduces the loss caused by weather conditions and improves the implementation of an optimal strategy for agricultural production on reclaimed lands. Such calculations are based on economic and statistical modelling of different variants that accounting for standard hy-drometeorological information in the implementation of design, management and economic decisions. This increases the validity and reliability of calculations, as well as their compliance with the actual operating conditions of environmental and economic facilities. Consequently, this attracts increased interest of both public and private investors. Not only under such conditions is a sustainable development of environmental management sectors possible but also the adaptation to global climate change and additional benefits from the efficient economic activity in the new environmen-tal conditions.
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Authors and Affiliations

Anatoliy Rokochinskiy
1
ORCID: ORCID
Nadia Frolenkova
1
ORCID: ORCID
Vasyl Turcheniuk
1
ORCID: ORCID
Pavlo Volk
1
ORCID: ORCID
Nataliіa Prykhodko
1
ORCID: ORCID
Ruslan Tykhenko
2
ORCID: ORCID
Ivan Openko
2
ORCID: ORCID
  1. National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, Str. Soborna, 11, 33000, Rivne, Ukraine
  2. National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Str. Vasylkivska, 17, 03040, Kyiv, Ukraine

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