This study describes and evaluates the various schemes available for weighting the different impacts of alternative waste management options, including landfill, composting, re-use, recycling and source reduction. The context of the study is life cycle assessment (LCA), which seeks to describe and quantify the impacts on the environment, both in terms of resource use and emissions or wastes, of...

Abstract The systems of trickle irrigation offer the potential influential to increase crop yields and have been proven reasonable according engineering agricultural opinion particularly in barren areas. Trickle that offered comparatively lately Arab countries demonstrated save huge amounts water enhance yield. computational program (Trickle Irrigation System Design, TISD) connected with econom...

Background Studies investigating diet-related environmental impacts have rarely considered the production method of the foods consumed. The objective of the present study, based on the NutriNet-Santé cohort, was to investigate the relationship between a provegetarian score and diet-related environmental impacts. We also evaluated potential effect modifications on the association between a prove...

COVID-19 salgını döneminde, dünya genelinde virüsün yayılmasını kontrol altına almak için alınan önlemler; sosyal, ekonomik ve ticari faaliyetlerin yavaşlamasına neden olmuştur. Bu durum kaçınılmaz olarak çevre bileşenlerini de doğrudan veya dolaylı etkilemiştir. kısıtlamalarının uygulanmasıyla, dünyanın farklı şehirlerinde hava kalitesinin önemli ölçüde iyileştiği, sera gazı emisyonunun düştüğ...

The production of food is responsible for major environmental impacts. Bearing this in mind, it is even worse when food is lost rather than consumed. In Switzerland, 46% of all processing potatoes and 53% of all fresh potatoes are lost on their way from field to fork. Our study therefore compares the environmental impacts of losses of fresh potatoes with those of French fries. With the aid of a...