The civic amenity sites are facilities for selective collection where citizens have to remove those special domestic wastes that require to be managed apart from other household waste (furniture, rubble, electrical appliances, ...

The term ‘impact of land use’ has been used in the field of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to denote environmental impacts relating to the occupation and physical transformation of land areas. This paper presents a detailed ...

European Union, by means of Directive 2000/53/EC on end-of-life vehicles, limits the deposit of waste materials coming from vehicles in landfills. Directive 2000/53/EC provides that, by 1st January 2015, maximum 5% by ...

Functional design has been broadly used in all engineering fields, but nowadays it has been revealed as a useful tool both for enterprise design and organization, and project management and direction. The FBS framework has ...

Spain is one of the major producers of construction and demolition (C&D) waste in the European Union, however, presents a low level of C&D waste recovery (about 17%) which is well below the target level established by the ...

The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology is a comprehensive environmental impact assessment tool whose aim is to evaluate the most relevant environmental impacts of a product or service along its life cycle. However, ...

The automotive sector, given the need to reduce energy demand and environmental impact of vehicles, needs to reduce the weight of vehicles. Lightweighting strategy to implement is based on the massive use of plastics and ...