Resources Conservation and Recycling

Papers
(The median citation count of Resources Conservation and Recycling is 12. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Context-dependent carbon mitigation potential using long-term onshore wind turbine datasets in China1163
Spatial and in-product density characterization of in-use copper stocks in Japan for stock recyclability assessment626
The circular policy canvas: Mapping the European Union's policies for a sustainable fashion textiles industry407
Durability assessment of alkyl ketene dimer hydrophobic treatment of bio-based thermal insulation materials356
Multi-effect equilibrium analysis for sector-level direct/indirect socio-economic and environmental effects of large-scale hydropower initiatives: A case study for the world's 7th-largest hydropower p338
Corrigendum to <’ Water resource synergy management in response to climate change in China: From the perspective of urban metabolism’>320
Towards the globally sustainable use of forestlands and wood resources: Estimating fair timber price deriving supply curves in a proven stable state318
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Promoting resource conservation in road flexible pavement using jet grouting and plastic waste as filler280
Packaging solutions for household food waste in the context of the food/beverage–packaging industry: A comparative review of empirical literature and industry press releases242
Municipal solid waste management technological barriers: A hierarchical structure approach in Taiwan242
Reducing single-use plastic in everyday social practices: Insights from a living lab experiment240
Assessment of microplastics production from waste plastics-modified asphalt pavement233
Toward sustainable utilization of tungsten: Evidence from dynamic substance flow analysis from 2001 to 2019 in China230
StrawFeed model: An integrated model of straw feedstock supply chain for bioenergy in China223
Rapid identification of hazardous heavy metal-containing waste by combining EDXRF with machine learning: Taking zinc smelting waste as an example220
Evidence of animal productivity outcomes when fed diets including food waste: A systematic review of global primary data211
Rural depopulation has reshaped the plant diversity distribution pattern in China209
Integration of anaerobic co-digestion of grass silage and cattle slurry within a livestock farming system in Ireland: Quantification of greenhouse gas emission reduction and nutrient flow202
Use of steel slag as sustainable construction materials: A review of accelerated carbonation treatment199
Synthesis and application of geopolymers from municipal waste incineration fly ash (MSWI FA) as raw ingredient - A review184
Reuse of sludge waste in Electro-Fenton:Performance and life cycle assessment173
Shower energy and greenhouse gas efficiency, significance, and reduction opportunities171
Evolution characters and regulation impacts within the global scrap rubber trade network166
A material stock and flow analysis for Australian detached residential houses: Insights and challenges163
Inconsistencies revealed: A critical analysis of circular economy assessment methods for buildings159
Valorization solutions for diverse commercial winery biomass wastes via sustainable processing157
Evaluating strategies for managing resource use in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles using the global MATILDA model156
Mapping material use and embodied carbon in UK construction154
Greener green: The environmental impacts of the Canadian cannabis industry151
Aqua regia-based digestion methods for trace rare earth element recovery from coal fly ash149
Prospective material and substance flow analysis of the end-of-life phase of crystalline silicon-based PV modules146
Efficient removal of phosphonate and phosphorus recovery from reverse osmosis concentrate using electroactive membrane reactor145
Temporal lag in nitrogen use efficiency and its implications for sustainable cropland management142
Global stagnation and regional variations in steel recycling141
Interpreting low-carbon transition at the subnational level: Evidence from China using a Natural Language Processing approach140
Material stocks in global electricity infrastructures – An empirical analysis of the power sector's stock-flow-service nexus134
From waste to defense: Cost-efficient upcycling of boron mud to nuclear radiation shielding133
Prospects on end of life electric vehicle batteries through 2050 in Catalonia132
Life cycle assessment of priority biochemicals: A review and meta-regression analysis130
Integrated electroflocculation-membrane process for pre-concentration of domestic wastewater: Filtration performance, organics recovery and membrane fouling characteristics130
Multi-regional land disturbances induced by mineral use in a product-based approach: A case study of gasoline, hybrid, battery electric and fuel cell vehicle production in Japan128
Residential carbon emission flows embedded in population migration over time in China: A geospatial dynamics analysis128
Upcycling of air pollution control residue waste into cementitious product through geopolymerization technology128
Climate change mitigation investigating asphalt pavement solutions made up of plastomeric compounds126
Uncovering the future environmental burdens of medical waste disposal in China and mitigation pathways124
Private financing and the circular economy124
Rapid fiber-to-fiber recycling of poly (ethylene terephthalate) and its dye from waste textiles without damaging their chemical structures123
Advancing geospatial methods for addressing global resource and sustainability challenges123
Promoting circular economy: Comparison of novel coupled aquaponics with anaerobic digestion and conventional aquaponic systems on nutrient dynamics and sustainability122
Urban greenhouse covering materials: Assessing environmental impacts and crop yields effects120
Identifying the needs for a circular workwear textile management – A material flow analysis of workwear textile waste within Swiss Companies120
Keep manure fresh, get more!117
Do rivers get sufficient sleep—A global analysis of light pollution in rivers117
Circularity scoring system: A product specific application to lithium-ion batteries of electric vehicles117
Regulations for carbon capture, utilization and storage: Comparative analysis of development in Europe, China and the Middle East115
Evolving cobalt cycle and urban mines in the EU, 1988–2020113
Methodology for identifying cost-effective food waste-resource circulatory strategies toward zero-carbon cities: Linking valorization technologies with byproduct reutilization pathways113
A structured approach for the compliance analysis of battery systems with regard to the new EU Battery Regulation112
Understanding the relationship between slag crystallization behaviour and electrical conductivity under isothermal conditions for online slag solidification monitoring in slag recycling112
Integrating socioecological indexes in multiobjective intelligent optimization of green-grey coupled infrastructures110
Near-infrared-based determination of mass-based material flow compositions in mechanical recycling of post-consumer plastics: Technical feasibility enables novel applications110
Mild chemical recycling of waste wind turbine blade for direct reuse in production of thermoplastic composites with enhanced performance109
Material flows and embodied carbon emissions of aluminum used in China's photovoltaic industry from 2000 to 2020108
Recent progress in silicon photovoltaic module recycling processes108
Evaluating real-time control of stormwater drainage network and green stormwater infrastructure for enhancing flooding resilience under future rainfall projections108
The impact of the rise of emerging economies on global industrial CO2 emissions: Evidence from emerging economies in Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership107
Large inter-city inequality in consumption-based CO2 emissions for China's pearl river basin cities106
From LCA to circular design: A comparative study of digital tools for the built environment105
Challenges toward carbon neutrality in China: Strategies and countermeasures105
Perceived drivers and barriers in the governance of wastewater treatment and reuse in India: Insights from a two-round Delphi study104
The need for design-for-recycling of paper-based printed electronics – a prospective comparison with printed circuit boards104
Identifying holistic actions for implementing the sustainable development goals related to livelihood–energy–ecosystem–water nexus in the Asian water tower region103
Solid waste management in China: Policy and driving factors in 2004–2019101
An efficient recycling of PET bottles: “Participants screening” through the slightest unwillingness toward cap removal100
Accelerating the energy transition to achieve carbon neutrality100
Estimation of construction and demolition waste and assessment of disposal facility location: An integrated Material Flow Analysis and Geographic Information System approach99
The influence of copper trade relation structure on copper price: From the perspective of industrial chain99
Resilience assessment of the electric vehicle lithium-ion battery supply chain under supply shortages of upstream mineral enterprises98
Human health, economic, and environmental impacts of emergency drinking water contamination events and response actions98
Life-cycle environmental impact assessment and plastic pollution prevention measures of wet wipes98
Prospective assessment of transformation pathways toward low-carbon steelmaking: Evaluating economic and climate impacts in Germany96
Fish beyond fillets: Life cycle assessment of cross-processing herring and lingonberry co-products into a food product95
Does environmental regulatory pressure affect corporate debt financing?95
A Randomized Controlled Trial to Address Consumer Food Waste with a Technology-aided Tailored Sustainability Intervention95
Corrigendum to ’When to replace products with which (circular) strategy? An optimization approach and lifespan indicator’94
Field application and effect evaluation of different iron tailings soil utilization technologies94
Corrigendum to ‘Crop residues may be a key feedstock to bioeconomy but how reliable are current estimation methods?’ Volume 164 (2021) 10521192
China's pathway towards a net zero and circular economy: A model-based scenario analysis91
Corrigendum to ‘Multilevel modelling of impacts of human and natural factors on ecosystem services change in an oasis, Northwest China title of article’ [Resources, Conservation & Recycling 169 (291
Assessing critical materials demand in global energy transition scenarios based on the Dynamic Extraction and Recycling Input-Output framework (DYNERIO)90
Corrigendum to 〈 U.S. lithium resources from geothermal and extraction feasibility〉90
The mechanism study of attached microalgae cultivation based on reverse osmosis concentrated water (WROC)90
Optimal allocation of tomato supply to minimize greenhouse gas emissions in major U.S. metropolitan markets90
Assessment of forest-based biofuels for Arctic marine shipping90
Enhancement of recycling system for large WEEE plastics in Korea via material flow analysis (MFA) and hazardous substances assessment90
Building-level material stock calculation method based on the room-specific material intensity and floorplan inferred by generative adversarial networks (GANs)89
Hydrogen production potential from wind power in China by 206089
Printed Circuit Board identification using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to facilitate recycling88
Advancing the circular economy of healthcare plastics: A systematic literature review88
Exploring diatomite as a novel natural resource for ecofriendly-sustainable hybrid cements86
Is repair of energy using products environmentally beneficial? The case of high voltage electric motors86
Assessment of forest disturbance and soil erosion in wind farm project using satellite observations85
Assessing the impact of policy tools on building material recovery84
live (a) little: GHG emissions from residential building materials for all 400 counties and cities of Germany until 205084
Mechanistic-empirical pavement design to include mechanical performance of rubberized asphalt pavements in the use stage of life cycle assessment84
Mitigating flood impacts on road infrastructure and transportation by using multiple information sources82
Selective Precipitation of Titanium, Magnesium, and Aluminum from the Steelmaking Slag Leach Liquor82
Life cycle cost, energy, and carbon emissions of molds for precast concrete: Exploring the impacts of material choices and additive manufacturing82
Applicability of the environmental Kuznets curve to construction waste management: A panel analysis of 27 European economies81
Forecasting revenue from primary and secondary sources of rare earth elements81
Rate-limiting factors for indirect two-step biodismantling for printed circuit board recycling81
Mining on land or in the deep sea? Overlooked considerations of a reshuffling in the supply source mix80
An integrated supply chain analysis for cobalt and rare earth elements under global electrification and constrained resources80
Zero-waste city pilot and urban green and low-carbon transformation: Quasi-experimental evidence from China79
The use of ships within a CCUS system: Regulation and liability79
Evaluating emission reduction potential and co-benefits of CO2 and air pollutants from mobile sources: A case study in Shanghai, China78
Phosphorus supply chain for sustainable food production will have mitigated environmental pressure with region-specific phosphorus management78
Sustainable recovery and resynthesis of electroactive materials from spent Li-ion batteries to ensure material sustainability78
Recycling of pyrite and gypsum mining residues through thermochemical conversion into valuable products77
Southern China can produce more high-quality rice with less N by green manuring77
A review on application of single and composite conductive additives for anaerobic digestion: Advances, challenges and prospects77
China should focus beyond access to toilets to tap into the full potential of its Rural Toilet Revolution77
Climate clubs embedded in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement76
Recognizing the challenges of composting: Critical strategies for control, recycling, and valorization of nitrogen loss76
Environmental benefit of recycling plastics from waste electrical & electronic equipment76
Spatial expansion paths of urban heat islands in Chinese cities: Analysis from a dynamic topological perspective for the improvement of climate resilience75
Government responsive selectivity and public limited mediation role in air pollution governance: Evidence from large scale text data content mining74
Recovery of spent LiCoO2 lithium-ion battery via environmentally friendly pyrolysis and hydrometallurgical leaching74
Oriented conversion of spent LiCoO2-lithium battery cathode materials to high-value products via thermochemical reduction with common ammonium oxalate74
China's urban and rural residential carbon emissions: Past and future scenarios73
Using existing infrastructures of high-speed railways for photovoltaic electricity generation73
Assessment of carbon balance attribution and carbon storage potential in China's terrestrial ecosystem73
Integration of energy flow modelling in life cycle assessment of electric vehicle battery repurposing: Evaluation of multi-use cases and comparison of circular business models73
Predicting potential climate change impacts of bioenergy from perennial grasses in 205073
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Resources, Conservation & Recycling 2022 Most Cited Paper Awards72
Chemical recycling of polyvinyl chloride: Recent progress in pretreatment dechlorination and chlorine recycling71
Non-additive effect: Variation in the effects of the interaction between primitive components in anaerobic digestion71
Global value chain restructuring driven by critical material trade: a case study of graphite71
Textile waste in Ontario, Canada: Opportunities for reuse and recycling70
The effects of product lifetime extension on short- and long-term supply chain circularity: A case study of the European aluminum automotive supply chain70
LLM-empowered literature mining for material substitution studies in sustainable concrete70
High-quality development in industrial parks: New narrative and pathway to sustainable development from a policy perspective in China70
Optimizing the bioplastic chemical building block with wastewater sludge as the feedstock using carbon-hydrogen-oxygen framework70
Harvesting and preparation of sludge-based fibrous adsorbent for heavy metals removal: Effects of organic substances molecular weight68
Integrated valorisation of a solid impurity stream in copper production: recovery and sustainability in metal extraction67
Metabolism of interconnected cities: A review of the literature and analytical framework67
Particle Packing Factor (PPF): A quantitative prediction parameter for designing sustainable Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC)67
Unveiling the economic and environmental impact of policies to promote animal feed for a circular food system67
Water heating energy use reductions from EPA WaterSense lavatory plumbing fittings67
Future of battery metals supply66
Torrefied paper as a packaging material and subsequently as a bioethanol substrate: Synergy of torrefaction and alkaline treatment for increased utility66
Sourcing phosphorus for agriculture: Life cycle assessment of three options for India66
An operation strategy towards efficient energy recovery from integrated anaerobic digestion and pyrolysis of corn stalk65
Effects of promoting decarbonization and digitalization on future copper cycles in Japan65
A Universal Circular Cities Declaration to Achieve Global Sustainability65
An experimental study on premium measurement in response to residents' willingness to pay for green housing in urban areas65
Waste LEDs in China: Generation estimation and potential recycling benefits65
Blending as a strategy for using phosphogypsum in granular road base: physical performance and implications65
Improving the performance of post-consumer resin feedstocks for rigid packaging applications: A pilot-scale assessment65
Tracing the life cycle carbon footprint of staple crops in Belt and Road Initiative countries65
Evolutionary trend and network structure characteristics of publicity information dissemination about waste separation by different opinion leaders65
Waste management strategies for military-generated waste in the United States64
Environmental impact assessment of cascading use of wood in bio-fuels and bio-chemicals64
End-of-life circulation of PFAS in metal recycling streams: A sustainability-focused review64
Alloy selective optical sorting of mixed post-consumer aluminum scrap streams64
Nutrient recovery in pyrolysis biochars for agricultural applications–Biochemical compositions and nutrient extraction techniques64
Platinum group metals: Key solid phase adsorption technologies for separation from primary and secondary sources64
How demand for and trade of construction materials affects greenhouse gas emissions64
Novel upcycling of mixed textile waste into valuable activated carbon: A circular economy solution64
Evaluating the transition to the circular economy in the agri-food sector: Selection of indicators64
Design for disassembly, deconstruction and resilience: A circular economy index for the built environment63
Supply-demand risk assessment and multi-scenario simulation of regional water-energy-food nexus: A case study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region63
Production of a novel belite-ternesite cement with high CO2 reactivity using 100% municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) residues63
Assessment of the significance of heavy metals, pesticides and other contaminants in recovered products from water resource recovery facilities63
An intelligent model of green urban distribution in the blockchain environment63
Dietary patterns and environmental impacts of Chongqing hotpot in China63
One-step selective recovery and cyclic utilization of valuable metals from spent lithium-ion batteries via low-temperature chlorination pyrolysis63
Dynamic capabilities for a "circular accounting" and material flows in a circular economy63
A green approach for preparation of MnFeTi Low-temperature NH3-SCR catalysts: utilizing spent V2O5–WO3/TiO2 Catalysts62
Empirical evaluation of reparability scoring systems for validity and reliability62
Plastic Circular Economy Framework using Hybrid Machine Learning and Pinch Analysis61
Sustainability transitions of urban food-energy-water-waste infrastructure: A living laboratory approach for circular economy61
Life cycle assessment of integrated bioelectrochemical-constructed wetland system: environmental sustainability and economic feasibility evaluation61
Comprehensive regionalization and potential water crisis for solar power development in arid and semi-arid regions of northwest China61
Which policy is preferred by crop farmers when replacing synthetic fertilizers by manure? A choice experiment in China61
Development of sustainable microwave-based approach to recover glass fibers for wind turbine blades composite waste61
Powder electrolysis for direct selective lithium recovery from spent LiFePO4 materials61
Evaluation of engineering properties and environmental effect of recycled gypsum stabilized soil in geotechnical engineering: A comprehensive review61
Understanding choice behavior towards plastic consumption: An emerging market investigation61
Short-chain fatty acid production from waste activated sludge and in situ use in wastewater treatment plants with life cycle assessment61
Environmental impacts of graphene at industrial production scale and its application in electric heating technology60
Life cycle sustainability assessment framework for water sector resource recovery solutions: Strengths and weaknesses60
What's stopping the waste-treatment industry from adopting emerging circular technologies? An agent-based model revealing drivers and barriers60
Design for circularity in manufacturing industries–operationalisation and decision support60
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Opinion leaders in eco-innovation diffusion: Analysis of information networks for waste separation in Shanghai59
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Digitalization and Energy Sustainability in ASEAN59
Selective precipitation of rare earth and critical elements from acid mine drainage - Part II: Mechanistic effect of ligands in staged precipitation process59
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The Circular Economy Life Cycle Assessment and Visualization Framework: A Multistate Case Study of Wind Blade Circularity in United States58
Synthetic microbiome and biochar enhanced human feces aerobic mesophilic composting58
Recycled carpet-reinforced composites from post-consumer polypropylene carpet and recycled HDPE resin58
Which labour for the CE? An exploration of narratives on labour and circularity in Flanders58
Circular Input Rate: novel indicator to assess circularity performances of materials in a sector – Application to rare earth elements in e-vehicles motors58
Stability of China's terrestrial ecosystems carbon sink during 2000-202058
Seven principles for monitoring the physical economy57
Used Disposable Nappies: environmental burden or resource for biofuel production and material recovery?57
Solvent blends for selective elastane dissolution and recovery from mixed polyamide fabrics57
Effects of climate, socioeconomic development, and greening governance on enhanced greenness under urban densification57
Does higher climate concern lead to a smaller carbon footprint? A study among the Nordic country residents56
The economic and environmental impacts of information and communication technology: A state-of-the-art review and prospects56
Selective precipitation of rare earth and critical elements from acid mine drainage - Part I: Kinetics and thermodynamics of staged precipitation process56
Microalgae-based technologies for carbon neutralization and pollutant remediation: A comprehensive and systematic review56
Enabling mechanical recycling of plastic bottles with shrink sleeves through near-infrared spectroscopy and machine learning algorithms56
Assessment of environmental sustainability of drinking water treatments for arsenic removal55
Acetone as an agent for PVDF recovery and delamination of lithium-ion battery electrodes55
Catalytic microwave-assisted pyrolysis of plastic waste to produce naphtha for a circular economy55
Probabilistic rewards increase the use of reusable cups55
Sustain China's copper resources with domestic mining, trading, and recycling55
Decoding the influence mechanism of restaurant plate waste behaviors in urban China55
Recovery of pure lead and preparation of nano-copper from waste glass diodes via a clean and efficient technology of step-by-step vacuum evaporation-condensation54
A green process for simultaneously efficient base metals removal and precious metals enrichment from copper anode slime54
Industry-specific synergistic assessment of pollution and carbon reduction: a case study on photovoltaic waste recycling53
Simultaneous recovery of nitrogen and phosphorus from actual digester centrate in an electrochemical membrane system53
Transforming waste into wellness: Enhancing well-being through domestic food upcycling53
The p-hydroxybenzoic acid enhanced lipid accumulation of Chlorella under antibiotic stress53
Mapping the optimal marine zones for artificial upwelling and assessing its macroalgae-based carbon sink potential in China53
Simultaneous mass estimation and class classification of scrap metals using deep learning53
Optimal strategies of critical mineral depletion and recycling52
Recycling to alleviate the gap between supply and demand of raw materials in China's photovoltaic industry52
Synthesis of construction materials from low-quality sand: Impact of reaction time and ethanol recycling52
Multi-metal electrochemical response mechanism for direct copper recovery from waste printed circuit boards via sulfate- and chloride-system electrolysis52
Microbubble-assisted liquid oxidation for efficient one-step phase decomposition and recovery of V and Cr from vanadium slag52
Building stock modelling for circularity: Insights from a Danish component-level model52
Disassembly technologies of end-of-life automotive battery packs as the cornerstone for a circular battery value chain: A process-oriented analysis52
Stochastic analysis for comparing life cycle carbon emissions of hot and cold mix asphalt pavement systems52
Estimation of recoverable resources used in lithium-ion batteries from portable electronic devices in Japan52
Fighting Fire with Fire: Carbon-Negative Heat Production in Canada's North Using Pyrolysis of Fire-Killed Trees52
Waste PET plastic-mediated synthesis of manganese- and cobalt-doped RuO2 catalyst for electro-oxidation of water with robust stability51
The materiality of transparency: An environmental analysis of the architectural flat glass industry since 1945 in Europe, France and Belgium51
Cluster-based identification algorithm for in-line recycled concrete aggregates characterization using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)51
Agricultural plastic mulching as a potential key source of microplastic pollution in the terrestrial ecosystem and consequences51
Reuse of waste glass powder in alkali-activated metakaolin/fly ash pastes: Physical properties, reaction kinetics and microstructure51
Can structural changes lead to dematerialization? Lessons from the Portuguese socioeconomic metabolism between 1995 and 201751
The impact of the urban digital economy on China's carbon intensity: Spatial spillover and mediating effect50
Thermochemically driven crystal phase transfer via chlorination roasting toward the selective extraction of lithium from spent LiNi1/3Co1/3Mn1/3O250
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