Themed collection UN Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Advancing the future of wood plastic composites: a synergy of materials, methods, and sustainability.

This review highlights the potential of lignocellulosic biomass as an eco-friendly component in green and sustainable construction materials, addressing environmental challenges through up-to-date research, applications, and life-cycle assessments.

HPTPs exhibit ordered porosity and tunable coordination environments. This review highlights the synthetic strategies, structural morphology, and multifunctional applications spanning catalysis, adsorption, ion exchange, sensing, and energy storage.

Measuring sustainability in international chemicals management: we present 23 indicators as a contribution to the Global Framework on Chemicals. Due to the overarching concept of sustainable chemistry, the indicators are related to several SDGs.

A low-cost, recyclable ionic liquid generates sustainable cellulose, renewable small molecules and lignin-derived carbon fibres from wood biomass.

Acylals can be synthesised quickly under microwave irradiation using Cyrene as a sustainable solvent. The products can be purified by precipitation from water or by a solvent-sparing chromatography, as described in this study.

By-products from the fish processing industry were used to produce hydroxyapatite nanoparticles through green methods. After cleaning with enzymes, the bones were transformed into spherical nanoparticles with diameters <100 nm using mechanochemistry.