Waste Beverage Containers Automatic Green Recycling Technique Based on the Optical Image Inspection

2010 ◽  
Vol 97-101 ◽  
pp. 2291-2294
Author(s):  
Rui Hai Ji ◽  
Hai Qing Du ◽  
Xin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Basic Principle ◽  
Optical Image ◽  
Object Contour ◽  
Beverage Containers ◽  
Recycling Economy ◽  
Image Inspection ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Recycling Technique ◽  
Recognition Technique

Aiming at the problem of effectively recycling waste beverage containers, an automatic green recycling technique based on the optical image inspection is proposed. The basic principle and realization steps of the automatic green recycling technique are expounded. By using the optical image inspection technique and object contour recognition technique, the waste beverage containers are classified from different manufactures. The problem of waste beverage containers automatic recycling is solved, the cost of retailers is reduced and the waste beverage containers are recycled effectively. This automatic green recycling technique is significant for the recycling economy and sustainable development.

Is it worth doing fieldwork with this organisation? A method for considering context before conducting fieldwork research in Sport for development and peace.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tegwen Gadais ◽  
Laurie Décarpentrie ◽  
Andrew Webb ◽  
Marie Belle Ayoub ◽  
Mariann Bardocz-Bencsik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Limited Time ◽  
Sport For Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Existing Data

Much has been written about sport as a tool for development and peace. But more research on Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) organizations, is needed to better understand their actual contributions to the UNs sustainable development goals. Yet, the unstable, risky, and restricted contexts in which many NGOs and SDP agencies operate often leaves researchers struggling to find effective yet feasible methods through which to examine agencies in these fields. Indeed, conducting field work on and with SDP agency often implies allocating significant quantities of researcher’s limited time, funding, and other vital resources. And as limited resources need to be invested wisely, SDP researchers will clearly need to prepare their fieldwork. Nevertheless, there are but a handful of methodological papers that address the question of how to prepare for SDP field work. In other words, the question of how we know if it is worthwhile, and safe enough, to proceed with SDP field work remains. Building on previous research, the purpose of this study is to raise important ontological and epistemological questions about what can be known about a given context, before setting off on fieldwork. We further explore the use of the Actantial Model as a research method for analyzing existing data before deciding whether to conduct fieldwork in complex and frequently insecure situations. In other words, will the cost (material, temporal, financial, and physical) of conducting fieldwork be worth it? By applying the Actantial Model, with the specific aim of informing decisions regarding subsequent fieldwork, to one specific case, contributions regarding the pertinence of conducting fieldwork are provided.

scholarly journals The Model of Vehicle and Route Selection for Energy Saving

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4528
Author(s):  
Olga Lingaitienė ◽  
Juozas Merkevičius ◽  
Vida Davidavičienė
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Fuel Consumption ◽  
Motor Vehicles ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Supply Chain Efficiency ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Cargo Delivery ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Source Use

The World Bank, United Nations, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and others are in line with the governments of countries that are strongly interested in the sustainable development of countries, regions, and enterprises. One of the aspects that affects the indicators and prospects of sustainable development is the efficiency of energy source use. Nationwide reductions in the greenhouse gas emissions of motor vehicles could have a direct effect on ambient temperature and reducing the effects of global warming, which can affect future environmental, societal, and economic development. Significant reductions in fuel consumption can be achieved by increasing the efficiency of use, and the performance, of current cargo vehicles. This aspect is directly related to cargo delivery systems and supply chain efficiency and effectiveness. The article solves the problem of increasing the effectiveness of cargo delivery and proposes a model that would minimize transportation costs that are directly related to fuel consumption, shortening transportation time. The model addresses the problem of a lack of models evaluating the efficiency of cargo to Lithuania that is using several different modes of transportation. For the solution to this problem, the article examines the complexity of the rational use of land and water vehicles depending on the type of cargo transported, the technical capabilities of the vehicles (loading, speed, environmental pollution, fuel consumption, etc.), and the type (cars, railways, ships). The novelty of the findings is based on the availability to select the most appropriate vehicles, on a case-by-case basis, from the available options, depending on their environmental performance and energy efficiency. This model, later in this article, is used for calculations of Lithuanian companies for selecting the most rational vehicle by identifying the most appropriate route, as well as assessing the dynamics of the economic and physical indicators. The model allows for creating dependencies between the main indicators characterizing the transport process—the cost, the time of transport, and the safety, taking into account the dynamics of economic and physical indicators, that lead to a very important issue—reducing the amount of energy required to provide products and services.

scholarly journals Sustainable Retirement Living: What Matters?

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jake Barker ◽  
Bo Xia ◽  
George Zillante
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Energy Supply ◽  
Household Waste ◽  
Public Acceptance ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Cost Of Energy ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Survey Approach

There is a growing demand for sustainable retirement villages in Australia due to an increasing number of ageing population and public acceptance of sustainable development. This research aims to gain a better understanding of retirees’ understanding about sustainable retirement living and their attitudes towards sustainable developments via a questionnaire survey approach. The results showed that the current residents of retirement villages are generally very conscious of unsustainable resource consumption and would like their residences and community to be more environmentally friendly and energy efficient. The cost of energy supply is a concern to majority of respondents. However there is a certain level of concerns from residents too on the extra cost of going green in their residence. Education is required to residents about recycling household waste and how to use available facilities. A better understanding of retirees’ awareness and attitudes towards sustainability issues helps to improve the sustainable developments of retirement villages in the future.

scholarly journals Motivation, Dilemma and Countermeasures of Foreign Bond Financing of Real Estate Enterprises?Based on Perspective of Financial Internationalization

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasai Liu
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
Financing System ◽  
Real Estate Enterprises ◽  
Financing Channels ◽  
Financing Costs ◽  
Financial Internationalization ◽  
The Cost

Several real estate enterprises in China (hereinafter referred to as housing enterprises) rely on overseas financing to meet their financing needs, but it is fraught with challenges such as high financing costs. Premised on the internationalization of finance, combined with the background of "staying and not speculating" and establishing a long-term mechanism for real estate market, based on the investigation of the financing motives of real estate enterprises, combined with a large amount of data, the present study examines the current situation and predicament of overseas financing of housing enterprises. It proposes four feasible countermeasures to promote sustainable development of real estate enterprises overseas financing including building a special financing system to reduce the cost, expanding various financing channels, strengthening the supervision of overseas bond financing, and reducing the loss devaluation of RMB internally and externally.

scholarly journals Migration Policy in the Context of Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 619-627
Author(s):  
Nataliia Tkachova ◽  
Taisiia Krushelnytska ◽  
Oksana Marchenko ◽  
Nataliya Kuznetsova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Education System ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
Integration Of Immigrants ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Welfare Inequality

The issues of sustainable development are related to the need in order to reduce poverty, inequality, insecurity, inclusion of immigrants in the system of education and health care, which contradicts the effective long-term solution of the global goals of EU migration policy. The aim of the research is to study the effectiveness of migration policy in the context of sustainable development on the example of EU countries in order to formulate proposals for overcoming the problems of inequality and poverty as priority goals. The results of the research complement the theory of the new economics of labour migration, considering this concept as a way to maximize income and reduce the risk of revenue through education, higher wages and a way to get better health and education services, access to developed infrastructure. However, the heterogeneity of the effects of migration is also reflected in the inability to obtain health services and access to the education system due to the high cost. All this exacerbates the problems of inequality and poverty due to the imbalance of both income and the cost of social services in different EU countries. It has been determined that the policy of integration of immigrants does not ensure the achievement of the goal of inclusive and equitable socialeconomic welfare. Inequality, in particular, gender one remains the main problem of sustainable development through illegal employment and different levels of remuneration. It has been proved that training should be considered in the context of sustainable development as providing access to the education system and programs. Despite the growing participation in educational programs and training of immigrants, the problems of inequality and poverty remain a priority for ensuring sustainable development.

Conceptual Model of the Subject of Circular Economy in the Context of Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
Roman Ivanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Synergistic Effects ◽  
Economic Behavior ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Wave Nature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
The Cost

The article deals with certain issues of the introduction and functioning of the circular economy, the introduction of which allows you to obtain positive environmental, economic and social effects. It is noted that it is characterized by the emergence of synergistic effects in the conditions of development of ecological and economic systems, which create conditions for their advancement towards a state of sustainable development. A model of the subject of a circular economy in the context of sustainable development, which reflects the transformative essence, wave nature and cyclical nature of economic processes within the framework of the wave-particle concept of the formation of economic behavior, is proposed and analyzed. The model is formulated in accordance with the methodological principles of describing material flows, which are based on the phenomenological assumption that their kinetics is isomorphic to the dynamics of a continuous medium. The presented construct was named “economic dipole”. The model is built in the state space, the coordinates of which characterize the quantitative and qualitative indicators of the studied subject. The model reflects the self-organizing nature of the management of a circular economy entity, the balance between production and consumption and cyclical movement within the framework of such a circular economy business model as resource recovery. It minimizes the cost of resources by increasing the efficiency of production through reverse flows. The adequacy and information content of the model was checked by analyzing the fields of speed and motivation, the connection of which in the context of sustainable development is represented by the equation of maintaining overall motivation, which consists of a motivating and compensating component. It is shown that the subject of the circular economy is more motivated for sustainable development and overcoming the negative consequences of production than for maintaining the existing state, which reflects the key positive effects of introducing a circular economy.

Improving the Cost Control System of Organizations Based on the Concept of Sustainable Development

Auditor ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 40-45
Author(s):  
Nataliya Kazakova ◽  
Lyudmila Permitina
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Control System ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Cost Control ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Control Optimization ◽  
Control Procedures ◽  
The Cost ◽  
On Farm

The article proposes the author’s two-level methodology of on-farm control based on the concept of sustainable development, which has practical significance and allows solving the problem of control, optimization of costs and production costs both at the pre-production stage and in the production process with an emphasis on control procedures for three types of costs: economic, environmental and social.

Business Ethics and Cost Management in SMEs

2018 ◽  
pp. 109-127
Author(s):  
Sorinel Căpusneanu ◽  
Dan Ioan Topor
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Ethical Behavior ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Cost Management ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Empirical Framework

This chapter illustrates aspects of business ethics and cost management applicable to small and medium-sized entities. The main objectives of this chapter are to identify and clarify ethical issues and business ethics theories applicable to small and medium-sized entities as well as to identify the functions and principles underpinning the cost management of small and medium-sized entities. Based on the literature, the authors also identify the factors that generate the ethical behavior, the organizational culture, the factors that influence the cost management of small and medium entities. There are also highlights of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility through which small and medium-sized entities align with the expectations and requirements of customers, the population and investors. Through the authors' contribution, a new conceptual and empirical framework is created to discuss other issues encountered in the business environment of small and medium-sized entities.

scholarly journals Enhancing Access to Energy Services for Sustainable Development in Rural Communities

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 146-152
Author(s):  
Surya Gyawali ◽  
Sushil Bahadur Bajracharya ◽  
Sudarshan Raj Tiwari ◽  
Hans Norve Skotte
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Energy Access ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Energy Services ◽  
Cost Of Energy ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Development Objectives ◽  
Physical Access

Access to energy has been based on physical availability, acceptability, adequacy, affordability, reliability, and quality of supply. In addition to physical access, real access to energy services can be limited by the purchasing power of the household, the cost of energy and cost or energy-using equipment. However, ensuring adequate energy for a healthy life implies that the types and amount of energy should meet basic minimum needs without adverse health impacts. The purpose of the paper is to explore the dimensions of energy access to rural communities in developing countries for enhancing sustainable development objectives. The systematic literature review methodology has been used to define approaches of sustainability of energy access and try to understand the linkage between modern energy access to sustainable development for rural communities. The study is stabilized that, redefinition and standard thresholds for sustainable energy services in local community level are crucial for human welfare and health, efficiency and productivity, as well as impacts on the environment, must be linked with sustainable development. Measuring sufficiency or adequacy is harder to define because this may vary from amazingly from region to region depending on climate, customs, and living standards. The study provides a unique insight into the needs, feelings and capabilities of people living with and without modern energy and related innovations and it contributes how these are mobilized and constrained in ways that may extend existing inequalities and the barriers to meaningful access, but also may signify means to overcome them.

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