Fruit and vegetable waste management: Conventional and emerging approaches

I Esparza, N Jiménez-Moreno, F Bimbela… - Journal of environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Valorization of Fruit and Vegetable Wastes (FVW) is challenging owing to logistic-
related problems, as well as to their perishable nature and heterogeneity, among other …

[HTML][HTML] Bio-based volatile fatty acid production and recovery from waste streams: Current status and future challenges

M Atasoy, I Owusu-Agyeman, E Plaza… - Bioresource technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Bio-based volatile fatty acid (VFA) production from waste-stream is getting attention due to
increasing market demand and wide range usage area as well as its cost-effective and …

[HTML][HTML] Waste to bioplastics: How close are we to sustainable polyhydroxyalkanoates production?

K Khatami, M Perez-Zabaleta, I Owusu-Agyeman… - Waste Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Increased awareness of environmental sustainability with associated strict environmental
regulations has incentivized the pursuit of novel materials to replace conventional petroleum …

Recent advances and challenges towards sustainable polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production

C Kourmentza, J Plácido, N Venetsaneas… - Bioengineering, 2017 - mdpi.com
Sustainable biofuels, biomaterials, and fine chemicals production is a critical matter that
research teams around the globe are focusing on nowadays. Polyhydroxyalkanoates …

Recent developments in Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) production–A review

PC Sabapathy, S Devaraj, K Meixner, P Anburajan… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are inevitably a key biopolymer that has the potential to
replace the conventional petrochemical based plastics that pose jeopardy to the …

[HTML][HTML] Polyhydroxyalkanoate bio-production and its rise as biomaterial of the future

T Palmeiro-Sánchez, V O'Flaherty, PNL Lens - Journal of biotechnology, 2022 - Elsevier
The first observation of a polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) aggregate was in 1888 by
Beijenrinck. Despite polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) being the first type of PHA discovered, it …

Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production via resource recovery from industrial waste streams: A review of techniques and perspectives

LDD Novelli, SM Sayavedra, ER Rene - Bioresource Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
The problem of waste generation in the form of wastewater and solid wastes has caused an
urgent, yet persisting, global issue that calls for the development of sustainable treatment …

Challenges of scaling-up PHA production from waste streams. A review

S Rodriguez-Perez, A Serrano, AA Pantión… - Journal of environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
The search for new materials that replace fossil fuel-based plastics has been focused on
biopolymers with similar physicochemical properties to fossil fuel-based plastics, such as …

Recovery of polyhydroxyalkanoates from single and mixed microbial cultures: A review

G Pagliano, P Galletti, C Samorì, A Zaghini… - … in bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
An overview of the main polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) recovery methods is here reported,
by considering the kind of PHA-producing bacteria (single bacterial strains or mixed …

Purple phototrophic bacteria for resource recovery: challenges and opportunities

G Capson-Tojo, DJ Batstone, M Grassino… - Biotechnology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sustainable development is driving a rapid focus shift in the wastewater and organic waste
treatment sectors, from a “removal and disposal” approach towards the recovery and reuse …