Management of Environmental Quality: Volume 15 Issue 5

Evaluation of the environmental performance of printing and writing paper using life cycle assessment

Ana Cláudia Dias, Margarida Louro, Luís Arroja, Isabel Capela

The paper identifies and assesses the potential environmental burdens associated with the life cycle of printing and writing paper produced in Portugal from Eucalyptus globulus…

Minimizing the environmental burden of oil palm trunk residues through the development of laminated veneer lumber products

Kamarulzaman Nordin, Mohd Ariff Jamaludin, Mansur Ahmad, Hashim W. Samsi, Abdul Hamid Salleh, Zaihan Jalaludin

This paper discusses the results from the initiative that has been undertaken to utilize residues from oil palm re‐plantation, particularly the oil palm trunk (OPT) for the…

Application of pine bark as a sorbent for organic pollutants in effluents

Isabel Brás, Luis Teixeira Lemos, Arminda Alves, M. Fernando R. Pereira

Nowadays trace organic pollutants represent a major concern in water treatment systems. Activated carbon has been used for most applications aiming at the reduction of these kind…

Capturing the arsenic fraction of CCA treated waste wood in the solid instead of in the gas phase during pyrolysis

Toshimitsu Hata, Paul Bronsveld, Tomo Kakitani, Dietrich Meier, Takeshi Kajimoto, Yuji Imamura

Recycling of preservative‐treated waste wood can be an environmental problem due to toxic elements being emitted into the environment. Pyrolyzing CCA‐treated wood at low…

General waste handling and recycling in particleboard production

Mihaly Varga, Tibor L. Alpár, Gabor Németh

This paper aims to analyze general waste handling in Hungarian particleboard production and give solutions based on experimental researches. During our research reuse of waste in…

Toxicity of pine resin derivatives to subterranean termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Lina Nunes, Tânia Nobre, Bárbara Gigante, Ana Maria Silva

In the search of alternatives for conventional fungicides and insecticides, the use of natural plant products for the protection of wood is one of the most appealing fields of…

Eco‐efficient wood protection: Furfurylated wood as alternative to traditional wood preservation

Stig Lande, Mats Westin, Marc H. Schneider

This paper aims to show the potential decay resistance of furfurylated wood and investigate possible eco‐toxicity of such materials produced. This paper deals with the…