Depletion Of Raw Materials Research Articles

Flexural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Beams by using Rice Husk Ash as Partial Replacement of Fine Aggregates in Cement Concrete

Rice Husk has been utilized as a mineral admixture, cement replacement option, and filler in cement concrete as it provides several advantages such as improved strength values and environmental benefits related to the disposal of waste materials and to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions resulting from production of cement worldwide. In this study, flexural behavior of reinforced concrete beams using rice husk ash as a partial replacement of fine aggregates is investigated. For this purpose, four types of concrete mixtures were produced using rice husk ash as a partial replacement of fine aggregates at replacement levels of 0%, 10%, 15% and 20%. The produced reinforced rice husk ash concrete prism specimens were cured in water and tested to determine the ultimate load and ultimate deflection at 28 days of curing. The test results depicted that, the maximum ultimate load carried by reinforced rice husk ash concrete beam is 39.4 KN with 10% rice husk ash at 28 days and minimum ultimate load is 19.02 KN with 20% rice husk ash used as a partial substitute of fine aggregates at 28 days. The minimum ultimate deflection of 0.97mm occurred with 10% rice husk ash as a partial replacement of fine aggregate at 28 days of curing. Hence, this study concludes that 10% RHA can be utilized as a partial replacement of fine aggregates to provide strength in concrete and to reduce the environmental burden of rice husk waste. The results of this study will also provide a way forward to address the recent issues in construction sector, such as depletion of raw materials and increasing cost of construction.

Low cost geopolymer modular toilet unit for ODF India – A case study

An initiative of Indian Government for Open Defecation Free (ODF) country is initiated under Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan (SBA) (Clean India Mission). An affordable toilet unit can cut down the cost implications of this high budget flagship programme. Conventional materials and techniques may not alter the cost, time and other parameters of the project. Therefore, quest for new and sustainable construction is the need of the hour. Thermal power plants, cement, iron and steel industries continue to be the polluters of environment and cause for climate change. Industrial wastes disposal and depletion of raw materials of cement industry are potential issues of concern for researchers around the globe. A zero-Portland cement using Fly Ash (FA) and Ground Granulated Blast Furnace Slag (GGBFS) can be a one-step sustainable solution for prevailing industrial problems. This article presents a case study on low cost geopolymer modular toilet unit for ODF India. It is the first time in India that the modular toilet unit is cast with Geopolymer Concrete (GPC) incorporating the Industrial wastes which enables easy and quick installation and provide the solution to the issue of waste disposal. It is fitted with mechanical self-cleansing system with regular, unintended, automatic and compulsory flushing with optimised quantity of water immediately after use. The GPC toilet unit has also shown the improved performance and functional properties over the conventional toilet unit in terms of embodied energy, GHG, land area, cost and material saving. This successful sustainable attempt can be scaled up to other concreting practices of construction and infrastructure industry, as a part or whole.

Exploring engineering properties of waste tire rubber for construction applications - a review of recent advances

A sizeable amount of tire rubber waste is generated due to the increasing number of road automobile users all over the world. The accumulation of this waste in the open area poses environmental threats and therefore requires suitable treatments. The use of waste obtained from tire rubber as a construction material could contribute to a circular economy, while at the same time be an eco-friendly method of minimizing the depletion of raw materials used for the development of building materials. This study aims to show the impact of crumb rubber (CR) on the properties of concrete. This review covers the environmental consideration of fresh and hardened properties of composites developed using waste tires. The results show that the plastic nature of CR with suitable admixture led to increasing slump value and consequently enhanced the CR concrete workability.

Establishment of Green Supplier Evaluation and Environmental Sustainability

The Environmental criteria should be considered In addition to traditional criteria such as price, quality and delivery time. Evaluating Green Supplier Development Initiatives Recently developed here; we have reviewed some of the import studies to find out how to improve green supplier development. Indexes based on environment, depletion of raw materials, increasing pollution and environmental degradation. Broad relaxation of quantitative and qualitative criteria for measuring supplier product quality is typical of increasing global trends in policies and practices. Improving the management companies Substitution under scarcity is used to create green supplier improvement program rankings to specify quantitative information for evaluations of selected criteria. The integration and management authors develop an expanded perspective on ecosystem dynamics that can serve as a guide is context at the analytical level of dimensional process and progress improvement are found in areas such as environmental management maturity and environmental content, the relationship between production strategy, distribution, supply chain management and technology management, and quality.

Prioritization of barriers in industrial symbiosis implementation in automotive industry - Using ISM and MICMAC Analysis

The continuous increase in production, lack of flexibility of organizations, and lack of knowledge on sustainability have led to the depletion of raw materials and increased waste generation. Industrial symbiosis now has become a very effective solution and an essential strategy for responsible consumption and waste utilization. This strategy helps different organizations to blend their resources, share information, logistics, and waste materials to solve their problems by forming a network to increase profits. This study was directed towards identifying the barriers towards applying Industrial Symbiosis in an organization with probable solutions to them. ISM modeling and MICMAC analysis were used to visualize the impact of different barriers for implementing Industrial symbiosis in an organization and improve efficiency in terms of eco-innovation. The results of this study give experiences and rules to practicing managers in medium and small-scale industries to effectively execute Industrial Symbiosis. The study also adds to the improvement of a basic model for examining the barriers affecting IS with regards to eco-innovation and sustainable frameworks and contributes to ongoing researches on this eco-friendly idea of Industrial Symbiosis.

A construction and demolition waste management model applied to social housing to trigger post-pandemic economic recovery in Mexico.

Buildings consume 40% of raw material and primary energy and generate 35% of industrial waste worldwide, making this sector play a main role in raw material depletion, energy consumption and carbon emissions which provoke great environmental impact and worsen Global Warming. Latin American countries including Mexico have the world's highest urbanisation rate (84%) but lack effective construction and demolition waste (CDW) management to thrive in regenerative sustainability, climate change mitigation and post-pandemic economic recovery. This work applies the Spanish current model to quantify on-site 61 Mexican social housing CDW with surveys to workers and supervisors as an additional source of data. The results of the case study show that social housing consumes 1.24 t.m-2 of raw materials and produces 0.083 t.m-2 of CDW. Cement-based, ceramic and mixed CDW represent 83.44% of total CDW. When considering inert soil as a recyclable resource, 78% of the remaining CDW ends in landfills and only 22% of it goes to recycling plants. The implementation of this methodology will deliver sustainable CDW management in Mexico, by minimising CDW production, promoting related legislation and allowing replacement of current construction materials for eco-efficient ones. Furthermore, these data can broaden the Spanish coefficients of the construction resources that become CDW to build an internationally sourced database.

Improving the Efficiency of the Vilnius City Transport System in the Context of Sustainable Mobility and Multimodality

Vilnius is one of the most dynamic cities in Eastern Europe experiencing a continuous increase in the number of vehicles and the development of road transport networks associated with a wide range of environmental impacts, greenhouse gas emissions, depletion of raw materials, energy and fuel consumption and also a social impact, expressed in the quality of life of people, human health, traffic jam and economic impact because of generated losses of economic efficiency. Different strategies have been adopted by the city of Vilnius to tackle the increasing traffic flows with a modest impact and without a long-term effect. This article aims at analysing the measures taken to improve the transport system of Vilnius city and presenting different types of solution, which could improve interconnectivity of passenger transport as ways to solve the problems of the urban transport system.

Nanoscience – from manipulation of atoms to human needs

Abstract Nanoscience and nanotechnology are an extrapolation from the field of microtechnology to the atomic level. The development is based on the 60-year-old message of R. Feynman, ‘There's plenty of room at the bottom’. His vision has fertilised at the turn of the millennium with the announcement of generously funded nanotechnology initiatives. The journey was paved by seven Nobel Prizes (1986–2016) for new microscopes, low-dimensional materials (fullerenes, graphene), theories and computer methods up to the building of molecular engines. However, the enthusiasm for this technically and IT-oriented ‘business as usual’ partly dissolves in the problems of a planet burdened by climate change, depletion of raw materials, new diseases and pandemics. It is a challenge for nanoscience to adapt to these goals. Therefore, after a brief recapitulation of the history and achievements of nanotechnology, the paper will focus on its new directions. Among them, nanomedicine and pharmacy are of the topmost interest. Moreover, in the interaction of the nanoworld with humans, cross-sectional topics such as nanoethics and nanotoxicology (hampered by commercial interests) must be placed at a higher level at the same time as addressing specific applications. The world counts on nanomedicine at first in areas where overcoming of physiological barriers is not so difficult. These are dentistry and dermatology. In pharmacy, promising is the administration of drugs by methods of a ‘Trojan horse’ – their introduction directly to a therapeutic target. We also provide examples of gas nanosensors for diagnostics. These topics will be processed in such a way as to highlight the importance of nanoscience for human health.

Separation of biodegradable material from the low calorific fraction of municipal solid waste

The increasing concerns regarding climate change and depletion of raw materials motivate governments to intensify their actions towards a cleaner energy matrix, independent of fossil fuels, and a more sustainable material supply chain. In this context, municipal solid waste (MSW) is of major interest, considering it contains a variety of potentially valuable materials, such as biomass (e.g. food and green waste) and recyclables (e.g. plastics, glass, mineral fractions, etc.). However, when suitable local infrastructure for the separation of these materials does not exist, MSW is usually discarded in landfills or thermally treated. Often, the thermal treatment involves transportation over long distances. The objective of this work was to develop a pilot mechanical pretreatment system for the separation of MSW (fraction <12 mm) into a substrate rich in biodegradable material for local valorization. The developed pretreatment consists of a sieving step followed by a mixing unit, which produces a suspension to be fed into a hydrocyclone. The impurity separation efficiency of the hydrocyclone was evaluated for different total solids (TS) of the suspension and for different volume flows (VF). For practical applications, the TS of 9% and VF of 10 m³/h presented the optimal arrangement for impurity removal. In addition, after passing the MSW-derived suspension through the hydrocyclone three times, it was possible to increase the concentration of biodegradable material from 40% TS to 65% TS. The removed impurities consisted of 90% minerals, glass and metals, presenting potential of further processing for the extraction of secondary raw materials prior to landfilling. The specific electricity demand of the proposed wet pretreatment was estimated at 3.2 kWh/t of MSW <12 mm processed.

The Ursolic Acid-Rich Extract of Dracocephalum heterophyllum Benth. with Potent Antidiabetic and Cytotoxic Activities

Pentacyclic triterpenoids are one of the main functional components in Dracocephalum heterophyllum. In this study the optimal process, the fairly simple and accessible extraction and purification of triterpenoids of D. heterophyllum, was developed by a remaceration method. Remaceration is characterized by minimal loss of biologically active compounds on diffusion, which contributes to the largest depletion of raw materials. The triterpenoid yield was 2.4% under optimal conditions which was enhanced to 98.03% after purification. The triterpenoid profiles and their anticancer and antidiabetic activities were further analyzed. GC-MS analysis of triterpenoidal extract of D. heterophyllum resulted ursolic acid (71.9%) and oleanolic acid (18.1%) as the major components. Additionally, total purified triterpenoid contents of D. heterophyllum and its main components were shown to possess significant cytotoxic activity against three human breast cancer cell lines (SK-Br-3, T47D, and MCF-7). The purification of triterpenoids influenced their biological activity. The antidiabetic effect, as measured by inhibition of protein-tyrosine phosphatase (PTP-1B), of the purified fraction of triterpenoids of D. heterophyllum increased by five-fold against the enzyme. The results provide important guidance for the industrial application of D. heterophyllum confirming the prospect of developing plant extracts into effective drugs and health foods for human applications.

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF RICE HUSK ASH (RHA) BRICK AS PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF CLAY

Clay has been used as main material in fabrication of bricks however the use of waste materials in brick manufacturing has been introduced for conservation of dwindling clay resources, as well as preventing environmental and ecological damages caused by quarrying and depletion of raw materials. Bricks that available in some regions have poor quality, low compressive strength, higher water absorption and uneven surfaces Therefore in this study, rice husk ash has been utilized for the preparation of bricks in partial replacement of clay. The specimens were cast with different replacement levels of clay varying as 0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20% with rice husk ash. The specimens were tested for water absorption and compressive strength accordingly to Malaysian Standard EN 1008:2010 for 2 hours. Experimental shows that excessive addition of rice husk ash has higher water absorption and low compressive strength as rice husk ash percentage increases rice husk ash characteristics predominate. The bonding between the clay particle and the rice husk ash particles is weak. By adding 10% of rice husk ash by weight is the best brick properties which 6.80 MPa of compressive strength and 16.30% of water absorption. The water absorption of RHA brick developed did not exceed 20% hence promoted to be partial replacement of clay.

Raw material depletion and scenario assessment in European Union – A circular economy approach

Nowadays the production systems are linear and the consumption patterns are essentially based on products with a short life cycle, which contribute to increase the demand for raw materials and environmental impacts. The Circular Economy (CE) is playing a major role among scholars and practitioners. Many aspects are now defining this new trending paradigm such as the roles of product development, transformation and remanufacturing/recycling, and/or management of waste, ensuring the economic and environmental benefits. The increasing demand causes instability of the prices and markets, and there is also the risk of supply rupture. This is very unsustainable and puts at risk countries’ development. In this work we analyze and assess some EU critical raw material (CRM), considering existing global reserves and production. Correlation between several parameters was also analyzed. Under this assumption one scenario was considered to assess the depletion of two CRM. China is the main supplier in 15 out of 25 CRM considered in this analysis and its average percentage is 65%. Phosphate rock presents the highest value and antimony the lowest for depletion indicator. It was possible to conclude that no significant correlation was found between depletion, self-sufficiency and economic importance indicators.

Research of Vitis vinifera leaves extraction process on Timatic laboratory extractor

Introduction: Herbal medicinal products are widely used for prevention and treatment of many diseases. Aim: The aim of our work was to study the parameters of grape leaves extraction on a laboratory extractor Timatic Micro. Materials and Methods: Towards achieving the goal, the tasks of determining the following factors influencing the grape leaves extraction were set: the degree of grinding and extraction time. Timatic Micro extractor was used for extraction. This contemporary technology is based on a double action of pressure – reduction of the pressure and percolation of biological material that intensifies extraction process. The extractant used was 40% ethyl alcohol as it provides maximum extraction of flavonoids and tannins. The extractor was set with standard parameters: compression - 2 minutes, decompression - 2 minutes. Results and Discussion: The degree of raw material depletion in the main biologically active substances of common grape leaves (tannins and flavonoids) significantly increases with decreasing the size of crushed grape leaves, and is the highest in the fraction less than 1 mm and is 69.93 %, 44.13% and 78.48% for extractives, tannins, and flavonoids, respectively (extraction time - 2 h). With increasing the time of extraction up to 4 h the yield of extractible substances increases by an average of 3%, but for 2 hours quite intensive extraction occurs, which gives high rates of raw material depletion. For obtaining the extract in the laboratory extractor Timatic, we have chosen as raw material a fraction of grape leaves of less than 1 mm and extraction time of 2 hours. Conclusion: The presented method has proven its reliability and efficiency in the extraction of substances in question.

Circular Economy - A challenge and an opportunity for Process Systems Engineering

Rising populations put huge stresses on natural resources. Extraction and depletion of raw materials and waste created throughout the supply chain of products have enormous environmental and socioeconomic impacts. One way to reduce these impacts is through the move towards the circular economy (CE). CE aims to solve resource, waste, and emission challenges confronting society by creating a production-to-consumption total supply chain that is restorative, regenerative, and environmentally benign. This article highlights research challenges and identifies process systems engineering (PSE) research opportunities to assist in the understanding, analysis and optimization of CE supply chains. A motivating example on the supply chain of coffee is introduced to illustrate the challenges of the transition towards a CE and to propose PSE research opportunities.

Choice of Extraction Method for Receiving Extraction from Seeds of Payne Hay with the High Content of Biologically Active Substances

Introduction. According to the literature, modern technologies, in particular, extraction in an ultrasonic field, make it possible to obtain concentrates of biologically active substances (BAS) with almost complete preservation of the chemical composition inherent in natural raw materials and high yield of extractive substances. At the same time, the ability to regulate the concentration of recoverable active substances during the technological process opens up prospects for the use of natural components as the main pharmaceutical substance.Aim. The purpose of this study was to select the optimal extraction method for obtaining extracts with a high content of BAS from fenugreek seeds. Materials and methods. Extracts were obtained at a temperature of 60±2 °С, by the method of dynamic maceration using an ultrasonic device. Ultrasonic extraction was performed using an ultrasonic installation I100-6/4. In both cases, purified water and ethanol solutions in various concentrations from 40 to 90% were used as extractants. The ratio of raw materials: extractant was as 1:10 (by weight). A portion of vegetable raw materials (10 g) was placed in a glass and poured 100 cm3 of extractant. Next, maceration or sonication was performed. Maceration was performed with magnetic stirring, the rotation speed was 100 rpm. Extraction was carried out at a temperature of 55–60 °C for 5 hours. Ultrasonic effects on solid plant materials were carried out with an intensity in the range from 17 to 22 kHz for 30–60 minutes.Results and discussion. Studies have allowed to determine the amount of extractives in the seeds of fenugreek hay, and choose the most promising method of extraction to obtain extracts with a high content of biologically active substances. A comparison was made between dynamic maceration and ultrasonic extraction. The most promising was the method of ultrasonic extraction at an oscillation frequency of 22 kHz. For 1 hour of extraction, it was possible to achieve depletion of raw materials. It is established that the content of extractable substances directly proportional depends on the duration of treatment and the frequency of ultrasonic waves. The correlation coefficient was 0.78.Conclusion. Ultrasonic extraction when exposed for 60 minutes allows you to get a greater amount of extractives compared with dynamic maceration. To achieve the same level of extractive substances by the method of dynamic maceration, the raw materials must be processed within 5 hours.

Engineering and manipulation of a mevalonate pathway in Escherichia coli for isoprene production.

Isoprene is a useful phytochemical with high commercial values in many industrial applications including synthetic rubber, elastomers, isoprenoid medicines, and fossil fuel. Currently, isoprene is on large scale produced from petrochemical sources. An efficient biological process for isoprene production utilizing renewable feedstocks would be an important direction of research due to the fossil raw material depletion and air pollution. In this study, we introduced the mevalonate (MVA) pathway genes/acetoacetyl-coenzyme A thiolase (mvaE) and MVA synthase (mvaS) from Enterococcus faecalis (E. faecalis); MVA kinase (mvk) derived from Methanosarcina mazei (M. mazei); and phosphomevalonate kinase (pmk), diphosphomevalonate decarboxylase (mvaD), and isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase (idi) from Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) to accelerate dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP) accumulation in Escherichia coli (E. coli). Together with a codon-optimized isoprene synthase (ispS) from Populus alba (P. alba), E. coli strain succeeded in formation of isoprene. We then manipulated the heterologous MVA pathway for high-level production of isoprene, by controlling the gene expression levels of the MVA pathway genes. We engineered four E. coli strains which showed different gene expression levels and different isoprene productivities, and we also characterized them with quantitative real-time PCR and metabolite analysis. To further improve the isoprene titers and release the toxicity to cells, we developed the extraction fermentation by adding dodecane in cultures. Finally, strain BL2T7P1TrcP harboring balanced gene expression system produced 587 ± 47mg/L isoprene, with a 5.2-fold titer improvement in comparison with strain BL7CT7P. This work indicated that a balanced metabolic flux played a significant role to improve the isoprene production via MVA pathway.

Engineered multifunctionality and environmental sustainability

Continual transformation is a characteristic of the biological world. Most random mutations in sexual reproduction are either infertile or fail to reproduce beyond a few generations, but some are better suited to altering circumstances and therefore thrive. A progression of successful mutations may eventually lead to a new species, and then possibly to a new genus, a new family, and so on. Conversely, when circumstances become unfavorable, a species can go extinct (Coyne 2009). Whether speciation occurs slowly or quickly and whether extinctions are gradual or cataclysmic, biological organs are remarkably versatile. Large swaths of the biological world are assemblages of the same organs, not of many different types but each type displaying a diversity of shape and size. Some organs have even emerged independently in species whose common ancestor lacked those organs, a splendid example being the appearance of wings in bats and birds that evolved over eons from flightless dinosaurs (McGhee 2013). One factor responsible for the persistence of a biological organ is its multifunctionality (Lakhtakia 2015). Limbs are used for moving, signaling, gathering and preparing food, wielding weapons, and initiating as well as warding off physical assaults, among other things. Similarly, teeth are used to bite, cut, and chew food as well as a tool to prise, incise, tear, or stab materials or beings. While adaptation to altered circumstances does bring about minor changes, biological organs are unlikely to undergo a complete overhaul except over very long periods of time. It is this multi-functionality that is central to the emergence of engineered biomimicry as a technological paradigm (McDowell et al. 2010; Lakhtakia 2015). The economy of multifunctionality is obviously attractive because structures that can perform several distinct functions can be incorporated in a variety of mechanisms and products. Inventory costs are reduced because fewer types of structures need to be manufactured, stored, transported, tracked, and eventually disposed off in landfills. Furthermore, the standardization of such structures promotes reusability in a wide range of mechanisms and products, not unlike intra-species or inter-species transplants of biological organs. Standardization also promotes easy repairability. The resultant extension of the lifetime of a product or mechanism slows down the depletion of raw materials, restricts manufacturing energy consumption, and reduces waste disposal. One way to engineer a multifunctional structure is to use multifunctional materials with numerous attributes. An example is that of lithium niobate, a perovskite material (bearing characteristics of a calcium titanium oxide mineral) which is piezoelectric (generating electricity from pressure), pyroelectric (creating voltage when heated or cooled), ferroelectric (reversing electric polarization), and displays electrically controllable optical properties. Many other perovskites display similar features (Bhalla et al. 2000), and organic perovskites are being extensively researched for harvesting solar energy (Chilvery et al. 2015). However, multifunctional materials are rare in nature. Another way to create a multifunctional structure is to exploit the commonalities in diverse products by housing them in a single unit with shared modules. A very common contemporary example of such a structure is a smartphone whose functionalities will continue to be revised and extended for several years to come. This second approach to multifunctionality is easier to implement but * Akhlesh Lakhtakia akhlesh@psu.edu

SUSTAINABLITY &amp; ENVIROMENTAL APPROACH TO CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY: USING RCA IN TO SCC

Indian construction industry the Sustainability development is for setting up a vision for the economy to achieve the major challenges such as social and economic development, environmental protection. Sustainability is the main criteria of any construction and making use of sustainable material so as to moving towards the reduction of emission of carbon footprints in the construction industry. In this paper the concepts of sustainability environmental protection using Eco- friendly materials which have been an revolution in the construction industry and also discuss in detail about the Environmental Management System which needed to be implemented in any project of construction industry. The Recycled Concrete Aggregate (RCA) is used as aggregate for production of new concrete i.e Self Compacting Concrete (SCC) with RCA was investigated. The performance of strengths produced by using Recycled Concrete Aggregate (RCA) in to concrete and results are compared with using the Natural Aggregate Concrete (NAC). The extraction of materials and Reuse of recycled Concrete aggregates from old constructions and Demolished Concrete Waste in production of new concrete as innovation of Indian concrete industry and the need for more civil and industrial infrastructures and development s, have unfortunately led to the unacceptable shortage and depletion of raw materials, increasing amounts of old Construction and demolition waste (C&DW) and accelerated deterioration of the natural environment at worldwide

Sustainable Logistic of Raw Materials Used by a Zootechnical Firm. Focus on CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; Emission Reduction through the Creation of a Local Suppliers Network

These are days in which words such as CO2 emissions, global warming, depletion of raw materials, climate change, etc. are terms that mean environmental and social concern to be solved for the whole world community. Nowadays, through a systemic planned management is luckily possible to improve, albeit in part, environmental criticisms in particular by acting on the efficiency of logistics flows of materials (input) of business processes. The positive benefits of systemic acting/thinking/designing are given substance thanks to a greater traceability of materials and packaging components and their suppliers, as well as a higher quality of the entire supply-chain and a significant reduction of CO2 emissions and logistics costs. The systemic methodology (here presented via a specific case study: an Italian zootechnical firm) promotes precisely this kind of management by creating new networks in which local companies/suppliers, geographically close one another, work together to achieve economic and environmental benefits both immediate and tangible. In the end, by putting into practice the systemic methodology, it is also fostered the best use of resources already on site and the promotion of the local economy by exploiting territorial potentialities.

CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; Emission Reduction through a Sustainable Local Suppliers Network of Raw Materials. Focus on a Delicatessen Shop

Global warming, CO2 emissions, depletion of raw materials, climate change, etc. represents the most pressing issues to be solved for the whole world community. Nowadays, through a systemic planned management is possible to improve, albeit in part, environmental criticisms in particular by acting on the efficiency of logistics flows of materials (input) of business processes. The positive benefits of systemic acting/thinking/designing are given substance thanks to a significant reduction of logistics costs, decrease of CO2 emissions and diminution of unnecessary movement of goods from large distances (which cause, among other things, the wastage of non-renewable energy resources), a greater traceability of materials and packaging components and their suppliers, as well as a higher quality of the entire supply-chain. The systemic methodology (here presented via a specific case study: an Italian delicatessen shop) promotes precisely this kind of management by creating synergistic and territorial clusters of small/medium enterprises (SMEs) in which local companies/suppliers, geographically close one another, work together to achieve economic and environmental benefits both immediate and tangible. In the end, by putting into practice the systemic methodology, it is also fostered the best use of resources already on site and the promotion of the local economy by exploiting territorial potentialities.