A review on the challenges and choices for food waste valorization: Environmental and economic impacts

P Roy, AK Mohanty, P Dick, M Misra - ACS environmental Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
Valorization of food waste (FW) is instrumental for reducing the environmental and economic
burden of FW and transitioning to a circular economy. The FW valorization process has …

Recycling of organic wastes through composting: Process performance and compost application in agriculture

T Sayara, R Basheer-Salimia, F Hawamde, A Sánchez - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
Composting has become a preferable option to treat organic wastes to obtain a final stable
sanitized product that can be used as an organic amendment. From home composting to big …

A review on nitrogen dynamics and mitigation strategies of food waste digestate composting

MK Manu, D Li, L Liwen, Z Jun, S Varjani… - Bioresource …, 2021 - Elsevier
Food waste digestate is a by-product of the anaerobic digestion of food waste. Presence of
high ammonium nitrogen content significantly increase the nitrogen loss upon direct …

Changes in global trends in food waste composting: Research challenges and opportunities

SK Awasthi, S Sarsaiya, MK Awasthi, T Liu, J Zhao… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
Increasing food waste (FW) generation has put significant pressure on the environment and
has increased the global financial costs of its appropriate management. Among the …

Food waste digestate composting: Feedstock optimization with sawdust and mature compost

B Song, MK Manu, D Li, C Wang, S Varjani… - Bioresource …, 2021 - Elsevier
Direct land application of food waste digestate (FWD) leads to 60–70% of nitrogen loss
through NH 3 volatilization due to its innate characteristics like high ammonium nitrogen (NH …

Microbes as vital additives for solid waste composting

M Rastogi, M Nandal, B Khosla - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
Composting is a natural process that stems through microbial succession, marking the
degradation and stabilization of organic matter present in waste. The use of microbial …

Composting with additives to improve organic amendments. A review

J Barthod, C Rumpel, MF Dignac - Agronomy for Sustainable …, 2018 - Springer
Composting and vermicomposting are sustainable strategies to transform organic wastes
into organic amendments, valuable as potting media or soil conditioner. However, the …

Co-composting of food waste and swine manure augmenting biochar and salts: Nutrient dynamics, gaseous emissions and microbial activity

B Ravindran, MK Awasthi, N Karmegam… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
The prominent characteristics of the biochar, high porosity, sorption capacity with low density
improve the aeration, making it a desirable amendment material for composting process …

Optimisation and production of alpha amylase from thermophilic Bacillus spp. and its application in food waste biodegradation

MJ Msarah, I Ibrahim, AA Hamid, WS Aqma - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
This study employed Bacillus spp. with α-amylase production isolated from Malaysian hot
spring for domestic kitchen food waste treatment contained grains, vegetables, chicken and …

Trends in mitigation of industrial waste: Global health hazards, environmental implications and waste derived economy for environmental sustainability

P Sharma, VK Gaur, S Gupta, S Varjani… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Majority of industries, in order to meet the technological development and consumer
demands generate waste. The untreated waste spreads out toxic and harmful substances in …