The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an environmental management tool that considers the environmental burdens of a system product. The complexity of the process requires support for the overcoming difficulties arising from ...

The Sustainable Development has found its application in the urban scope with the appearance of Agenda 21 in the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and in the construction sector with the Sustainable Construction concept in 1994. ...

The current recommendations for designing a paper/cardboard selective collection service only consider the technical and economical aspects as making decision parameters. However, the environmental criteria should be ...

To evaluate and control the pollution in an urban area, diverse graphic representation techniques should be used to map the spatial patterns of the studied pollutants. This is a complex task, which is only feasible if a ...

The use of data mining techniques in systems that capture information in real time is a field with numerous possibilities that has so far been scarcely exploited. This paper presents the results of the Spanish project ...

The high competitiveness of the ceramic tile market in recent times has created the need to incorporate added value into products, not just in terms of quality, but also in the form of environmental friendliness and care ...

The use of statistical values or environmental measurement results does not suffice to reflect the environmental impact of the sectors of transport and agriculture. Despite its large incidence upon sustainability, ...

The protection of the environment has turned into a fundamental premise to assure the quality of life and maybe the survival of the humanity. The analyses of the evaluation of environmental impact demanded from the majority ...

The industrial production of copper cathodes in Chile is obtained from oxidized and sulfured copper mineral compounds; the first being the most abundant in the combination. The life cycle assessment “from Cradle to Gate” ...

The role of Authorized Treatment Facilities (ATFs) for end-of-life (EOL) vehicles within the recycling chain is to take charge of decontaminating and disassembling EOL vehicles, thus enabling the reuse, recycling or ...