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Waste-to-Energy: A Midas Touch for Turning Waste into Energy

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  • Long Zhang

    (School of Business, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, China)

  • Wuliyasu Bai

    (School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430078, China)

  • Jingzheng Ren

    (Department of Industrial and Systems, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China)

Abstract

Presently, the rapid urbanization and industrialization have generated a great amount of waste around the world, which has led to increasing environmental pollution and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions [...]

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  • Long Zhang & Wuliyasu Bai & Jingzheng Ren, 2023. "Waste-to-Energy: A Midas Touch for Turning Waste into Energy," Energies, MDPI, vol. 16(5), pages 1-5, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:16:y:2023:i:5:p:2238-:d:1080709
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