A linear economy is a concept used to describe traditional economic models and economic systems that follow a straightforward approach to production and consumption. However, […]
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Ready-to-Assemble Furniture: Advantages and Disadvantages
Ready-to-assemble furniture or flat-pack furniture is a form of furniture packed and sold in separate components and requires assembly by end-use customers. Flat-pack furnishing products […]
Plastic Pyrolysis Pros and Cons: Converting Plastics Into Energy
Pyrolysis represents the thermal degradation of materials at high temperatures within a stable or inert atmosphere. The process has several industrial uses and applications. Nonetheless, […]
Pros and Cons of Waste-To-Energy Incineration Plant
An energy-from-waste or waste-to-energy incineration plant is a facility designed to dispose of solid wastes by converting them into energy. More specifically. It operates by […]
Apple Recycling Program: Advantages and Disadvantages
The Apple Recycling Program includes several initiatives that form part of its overall corporate social responsibility and its specific environmental strategy. Since the early 1990s, […]
Circular Economy: Principles, Benefits, and Challenges
A circular economy is a proposed economic system and a specific model of production and consumption, that aims to reduce or eliminate waste output through […]
Environmental Strategy of Apple: Key Sustainability Initiatives
Although the economic value and contributions of the consumer electronics industry and technology companies are undeniable, their impacts on the environment are as incontestable. For […]
Corporate Social Responsibility Program of Apple
Steve Jobs enforced several tenets that differentiated Apple from other technology companies. For example, when he returned to the company in 1997, one of his […]
Principles of Natural Capitalism: Definitions, Assumptions, and Applications
Physicist Amory Lovins, environmentalist L. Hunter Lovins, environmentalist and entrepreneur Paul Hawken wrote the 1999 book on environmental economics “Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial […]
What is Regenerative Design: Principles, Applications, Pros, and Cons
Regenerative design is fundamentally an approach to design that equips a particular system with the capacity to restore, renew, or revitalize its own sources of […]