Overview
- First dedicated book pertaining to grocery shopping bags
- Highlights the eco-functional considerations along with the eco-functional framework
- Also highlights consumer behaviour and eco-impacts
- Discusses the functionality aspect of different grocery shopping bags along with their eco-impacts
- First descriptive book to review the manufacturing processes of shopping bags, giving a cross country description of consumption of different shopping bags, and the end-of-life stages of shopping bags
Part of the book series: EcoProduction (ECOPROD)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu is working for SGS Hong Kong for its Global Sustainability Services as Eco-design Consultant after his doctoral research study from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. He finished his PhD dissertation entitled, “Eco-functional assessment of grocery shopping bags” with 14 scientific peer-reviewed scientific journal publications, 2 patents and 11 conference publications based on his dissertation to his credit. In total, he has authored more than 75 journal publications and numerous conference publications, 3 books and 2 book of chapters. He serves various peer-reviewed journals in environmental and textile sciences as an editor/editorial board member and also as a reviewer.
Prof. Yi Li is working as a full time professor in the Institute of Textiles & Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University apart from the director of Textile Bioengineering Centre and Chairman of TBIS. With over 460 scientific publications and more than 30 patents, he is a Fellow of the Textile Institute, Life Fellows of International Biographical Association and the Royal Society of Art, Commerce and Manufacturing, and adjunct professors of four universities in China and a member of several professional bodies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Assessment of Environmental Impact by Grocery Shopping Bags
Book Subtitle: An Eco-Functional Approach
Authors: Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu, Yi Li
Series Title: EcoProduction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4560-20-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-4560-19-1Published: 07 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1331-7Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-4560-20-7Published: 24 September 2013
Series ISSN: 2193-4614
Series E-ISSN: 2193-4622
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 162
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Operations Management, Sustainable Development, Environmental Management