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Arts and design strategies to address climate emergency and action: the case of electronic waste in Accra, Ghana
This contribution situates the role of public media art, critical making and reappropriation techniques as sociopolitical vehicles for enhancing climate actions and awareness in contexts of technological inequalities and electronic waste in Accra, Ghana. O ...
2023Bridging Science, Technology & Society (STS), electronic waste and research through design: the case of the Agbogbloshie landfill, Ghana
This contribution situates the potential of combining Science, Technology & Society (STS) with critical and sustainable design methodologies in order to enhance media literacy in contexts of technological inequalities and electronic waste in Ghana. Gravita ...
2023Role of Stress History on the Swelling-Shrinkage Behavior of Compacted Scaly Clay
Compacted scaly clays are complex geomaterials widely used for the realization of dam cores and waste dump liners. This research aims to investigate the swelling/shrinkage behavior of these geomaterials subjected in an oedometric cell to complex hydromecha ...
ASCE-AMER SOC CIVIL ENGINEERS2022Etude de faisabilité d’un processus de biolixiviation pour le recyclage des métaux et terres rares contenus dans les téléphones portables.
The electronics industry is one of the most successful in the world (Veit & Bernardes, 2015). Computers, mobile phones, television screens, touch pads are now part of the daily lives of many people of this planet. The advent of more and more sophisticated ...
2019Creating a competing demand for waste resources: a strategy for waste minimization in Nigeria
Solid waste management in Nigeria is a social and public health concern. Waste problems are more serious in cities as the communities lead a non-indigenous lifestyle with respect to resource consumption and wastage. Nigerian municipal waste has organic bio ...
A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017Tropical soils degraded by slash-and-burn cultivation can be recultivated when amended with ashes and compost
Alexandre Buttler, Vincent Eric Jules Jassey, Bjorn Jozef Maria Robroek, Robert Thomas Edmund Mills, Muhammad Saleem Arif, Justine Marie Gay des Combes, Leia Soraya Véronique Falquet, Clara Sanz Carrillo
In many tropical regions, slash-and-burn agriculture is considered as a driver of deforestation; the forest is converted into agricultural land by cutting and burning the trees. However, the fields are abandoned after few years because of yield decrease an ...
Wiley2017Applying value chain analysis to informal sector recycling: A case study of the Zabaleen
A methodology has been developed to apply value chain analysis (VCA) to the informal recycling sector, and demonstrated using the Zabaleen in Cairo, Egypt as a case study. The VCA methodology provides a ⿿toolkit⿿ comprising four stages. The first involves ...
Elsevier2016Assessment of organic waste availability and suitability for the co-digestion of faecal sludge in Vietnam
This Master thesis comes within the framework of the PURR project (Partnership for Urban Resource Recovery), which is a collaboration between the Department of Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries (Sandec) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic ...
2014Heterogeneous material micro-transfer by ink-jet print assisted mould filling
Jürgen Brugger, Grégoire Maxime Smolik, Loïc Jacot-Descombes, Vaida Auzelyte
A novel combination of ink-jet printing (IJP) and micro-transfer moulding (μ-TM) for high-resolution, heterogeneous material microstructuring is demonstrated. First, IJP is used to accurately fill the micro-cavities in an elastomeric mould, thus avoiding t ...
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