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A decision support tool for communicating the environmnetlal performance of products and ornganisations from the ceramic sector (Epub ahead of print)
Ibáñez-Forés, valeria; Bovea, María D Springer Verlag (2016-01)This paper presents a tool designed to facilitate the communication of environmental information in the ceramic sector, both for companies and products. Specifically, the communication tool allows the environmental product ... -
A holistic review of applied methodologies for assessing and selecting the optimal technological alternative from a sustainability perspective
Ibáñez-Forés, valeria; Bovea, María D; Pérez-Belis, Victoria Elsevier (2014-02)Assessing and selecting the optimal technological alternatives in industrial sector is a fundamental tool to improve and adapt the industrial processes to the European legislation, which encourages the incorporation of new ... -
A survey on consumers’ attitude towards storing and end of life strategies of small information and communication technology devices in Spain
Bovea, María D; Ibáñez-Forés, valeria; Pérez-Belis, Victoria; Juan, Pablo Elsevier (2017)This study analyses the current habits and practices towards the store, repair and second-hand purchase of small electrical and electronic devices belonging to the category of information and communication technology (ICT). ... -
Achieving waste recovery goals in the medium/long term: Eco-efficiency analysis in a Brazilian city by using the LCA approach
Ibáñez-Forés, valeria; Coutinho-Nóbrega, C.; Guinot Meneu, Marta; Bovea, María D Elsevier (2021-08-11)The aim of this study was to analyse how to ensure that medium- and long-term waste recovery goals can be achieved in Brazilian cities, based on the incorporation of viable and accessible technology. The identification of ... -
Adequacy of existing circular economy assessment tools for higher education institutions
Valls Val, Karen; Ibáñez-Forés, valeria; Lo Iacono Ferreira, Vanesa G.; Capuz-Rizo, Salvador F.; Bovea, María D Elsevier (2023)Circular economy (CE) has been identified as a key strategy to contribute to sustainable development and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda. In this context, organisations have started ... -
An in-depth literature review of the waste electrical and electronic equipment context: Trends and evolution
Pérez-Belis, Victoria; Bovea, María D; Ibáñez-Forés, valeria Sage (2015-01)The consumption of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) is continuously increasing worldwide and, consequently, so is the amount of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) it generates at its end-of-life. ... -
Aplicación de la metodología de análisis de ciclo de vida para evaluar el desempeño ambiental de sistemas de gestión de residuos en iberoamerica
Bovea, María D; Cruz-Sotelo, E.; Mercante, Irma Teresa; Coutinho-Nobréga, Claudia; Eljaiek-Ursola, Mónica; Ibáñez-Forés, valeria Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, la Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, la Universidad Veracruzana y la Universidad de Occidente, a través de la Sección Editorial del Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2016)La metodología de Análisis de Ciclo de Vida es la técnica más adecuada para evaluar el desempeño medioambiental de los sistemas de gestión de residuos sólidos. Durante los últimos años, se ha ido extendiendo su implementación ... -
Assessing the social performance of municipal solid waste management systems in developing countries: Proposal of indicators and a case study
Ibáñez-Forés, valeria; Bovea, María D; Coutinho-Nobréga, Claudia; De Medeiros García, Hozana R. Elsevier (2019-03)This article analyses the social performance of municipal solid waste (MSW) management systems in developing countries. For this purpose, a set of social impact categories, indicators and metrics capable of assessing the ... -
Assessing the sustainability of Best Available Techniques (BAT): methodology and application in the ceramic tiles industry
Ibáñez-Forés, valeria; Bovea, María D; Azapagic, A. Elsevier (2013-07)This paper presents a methodology for identifying sustainable and most appropriate BAT for a given industrial installation and sector. The methodology involves identification of environmental hot spots from an installation ... -
Avaliação do ciclo de vida da coleta seletiva de papel e papelão no núcleo do Bessa, município de João Pessoa (PB), Brasil
Coutinho-Nobréga, Claudia; Carvalho, Monica; De Medeiros García, Hozana R.; Ibáñez-Forés, valeria; Bovea, María D Associação Brasileira de Engenharia Sanitária e Ambiental - ABES (2019-09)Recognizing that paper and cardboard are the most common materials in Solid Household Waste (SHW) management, the objective of the study presented herein was to apply the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology to ... -
Consumer practices regarding the purchase, use, willingness to repair, and disposal of small electric and electronic equipment: A Spanish survey on kettles
Sandez, Sonia; Ibáñez-Forés, valeria; Pérez-Belis, Victoria; Juan, Pablo Wiley (2023)Repair is one of the main strategies to extend the lifetime of products in the circular economy framework. With the aim of identifying current consumer practices toward the purchase, use, and end of life of electric and ... -
Declaraciones Ambientales según ISO 14025 en el sector de la construcción. Parte 1: Marco normativo y metodología
Ibáñez-Forés, valeria; Bovea, María D Publica (2013)Este artículo se centra en las Declaraciones Ambientales reguladas por la norma ISO 14025 (2006) en el sector de la construcción. -
Declaraciones Ambientales según ISO14025 en el sector de la construcción. Parte 2: Recubrimientos cerámicos
Ibáñez-Forés, valeria; Bovea, María D Publica (2013)Este artículo tiene como finalidad aportar información relativa a los Programas, tanto generales como sectoriales, que han desarrollado Reglas de Categoría de Producto (RCP) para diferentes tipos de recubrimientos cerámicos, ... -
Disassembly properties and material characterisation of household small waste electric and electronic equipment
Bovea, María D; Pérez-Belis, Victoria; Ibáñez-Forés, valeria; Quemades Beltran, Pilar Elsevier (2016-07)This paper is focused on characterising small waste electric and electronic equipment, specifically small household appliances, from two different points of views: disassembly properties and material identification. The ... -
Eco-effiency alysis of the life cycle of interior partition walls: a comparison of alterantive solutions
Fernández García, Antonio; Ibáñez-Forés, valeria; Bovea, María D Copyright © 2015 Elsevier (2015-08)This paper presents an eco-efficiency analysis of the entire life cycle of 10 alternative solutions that can be used for interior partition walls that are variants on five building solutions commonly used in Spain (gypsum ... -
Environmental assessment of alternative municipal solid waste management strategies. A Spanish case study
Bovea, María D; Ibáñez-Forés, valeria; Gallardo Izquierdo, Antonio; Colomer Mendoza, Francisco José Elsevier (2010)The aim of this study is to compare, from an environmental point of view, different alternatives for the management of municipal solid waste generated in the town of Castellón de la Plana (Spain). This town currently ... -
Environmental implications of reprocessing agricultural waste into animal food: An experience with rice straw and citrus pruning waste
Ibáñez-Forés, valeria; Bovea, María D; Segarra-Murria, José; Jorro-Ripoll, Juan Sage (2022-10-03)The aim of this study is to conduct an environmental comparison, by applying the life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology, of two different compositions for animal foods each with two different nutritional contents (‘high’ ... -
How can organisations measure their level of circularity? A review of available tools
Valls Val, Karen; Ibáñez-Forés, valeria; Bovea, María D Elsevier (2022-04-19)Ensuring the success of organisations in their transition to a circular economy requires providing them with tools capable of measuring, monitoring and communicating their progress. That is, there is a need for tools that ... -
How do organisations communicate aspects related to their social performance? A proposed set of indicators and metrics for sustainability reporting
Ibáñez-Forés, valeria; Martínez-Sánchez, Virginia; Valls Val, Karen; Bovea, María D Elsevier (2023)The aim of this study is to determine whether it is possible to calculate indicators capable of measuring the social performance of organisations from the information that they are currently communicating in their ... -
How do organisations graphically communicate their sustainability? An exploratory analysis based on corporate reports
Bovea, María D; Pérez-Belis, Victoria; Torca-Adell, Laura; Ibáñez-Forés, valeria Elsevier (2021-10-01)Corporate reports containing non-financial information are the main tool that organisations can use to communicate information concerning their sustainability performance to their stakeholders. The use of graphic media to ...