Bioconversion of organic wastes into value-added products: A review

S Chavan, B Yadav, A Atmakuri, RD Tyagi… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapid urbanization has increased the demand for food, feed, and chemicals that have in
turn augmented the use of fossil-based resources and generation of organic waste. Owning …

Pretreatment of food waste for methane and hydrogen recovery: a review

OP Karthikeyan, E Trably, S Mehariya, N Bernet… - Bioresource …, 2018 - Elsevier
Food waste (FW) management by biological process is more attractive and eco-friendly
approach than thermo-chemical conversion or landfilling. However, FW composition and …

Conversion of food waste to energy: A focus on sustainability and life cycle assessment

A Sridhar, A Kapoor, PS Kumar, M Ponnuchamy… - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Rapid industrialization and population growth have resulted in the wastage of significant
quantity of food globally throughout the value chain right from harvesting to storage …

Valorization of seafood processing discards: Bioconversion and bio-refinery approaches

V Venugopal - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The seafood industry generates large volumes of waste. These include processing discards
consisting of shell, head, bones intestine, fin, skin, voluminous amounts of wastewater …

Phosphorus resources, their depletion and conservation, a review

L Reijnders - Resources, conservation and recycling, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Yearly, about 22× 10 12 g phosphorus (P) from mined fossil phosphate resources
are added to the world economy. The size of remaining fossil phosphate resources is …

A critical review: emerging bioeconomy and waste-to-energy technologies for sustainable municipal solid waste management

TH Tsui, JWC Wong - Waste Disposal & Sustainable Energy, 2019 - Springer
Municipal solid waste (MSW) management has emerged as probably the most pressing
issue many governments nowadays are facing. Traditionally, Waste-to-Energy (WtE) is …

Pharmaceutical and nutraceutical potential of natural bioactive pigment: astaxanthin

AD Patil, PJ Kasabe, PB Dandge - Natural products and bioprospecting, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Astaxanthin (3, 3′-dihydroxy-β, β-carotene-4, 4′-dione) is an orange-red,
lipophilic keto-carotenoid pigment. It is majorly found in marine ecosystems particularly in …

Potential use of eco-enzyme for the treatment of metal based effluent

M Hemalatha, P Visantini - IOP Conference Series: Materials …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Conversion of wastes into value added products is potentially profitable besides creating a
clean environment. Eco-enzyme is one such product produced from fermentation of citrus …

Polysaccharides from the marine environment with pharmacological, cosmeceutical and nutraceutical potential

N Ruocco, S Costantini, S Guariniello, M Costantini - Molecules, 2016 - mdpi.com
Carbohydrates, also called saccharides, are molecules composed of carbon, hydrogen, and
oxygen. They are the most abundant biomolecules and essential components of many …

Recent advances on food waste pretreatment technology via microalgae for source of polyhydroxyalkanoates

JWR Chong, GY Yew, KS Khoo, SH Ho… - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are biodegradable and biocompatible polyester which are
biosynthesized from the intracellular cells of microalgae through the cultivation of organic …