Heavy metal pollution has been considered as a serious threat to the environment and
human in the past decades due to its toxic and unbiodegradable properties. Recently …

Wastewater treatment may help to reduce water shortages, whilst concurrently recover
energy and nutrients, leading to some of the exploitation of important sources being offset …

A cost-effective and eco-friendly engineering method to improve biochar's physicochemical
and sorption performance is critical in various environmental applications. In this study …

Background Digested sludge is a good source of plant nutrients. However, depending on
the feedstock, it might contain heavy metals, metalloids, organic compounds, pathogens …

Food waste has extensive sources and can be produced in every stage of the supply chain.
Traditional landfills and incineration of food waste are deteriorating our environment. As a …

The value-added utilization of waste resources to synthesize functional materials is
important to achieve the environmentally sustainable development. In this work, novel micro …

Biochar is an extremely valuable carbon black material used since the Pre‐Columbian Era
in Latin America and is known for its properties to promote soil fertility and sustain crop …

Biochar, over the last two decades, has become the focal point of agro-environmental
research given its unique functionality, cost-effectiveness and recyclability potentials. It has …

Adsorption has been an important method for removing heavy metals from industrial
wastewater. However, there has been a lack of an environmentally friendly, low-cost …

Exchangeable lead (Pb) extracted by ammonium acetate from three independent incubation
studies was assessed to understand the influence of feedstock, pyrolysis temperatures, and …