Processing urban waste is becoming a major challenge, with the current state and
forecasted increase in urbanisation. Finding novel approaches to reduce and recycle this …

Coffee, one of the world's most popular beverages, carries with it a large economic and
environmental burden in the form of spent coffee grounds (SCG), the unutilized portion of the …

The coffee industry is one of the most important commercial value chains worldwide.
Nonetheless, it is also associated to several social, economic, and environmental concerns …

Spent coffee grounds (SCGs) arise as waste products through the production of instant
coffee and coffee brewing. This work reviews the composition of SCGs, the methods used for …

Spent coffee grounds are composed of lipid, carbohydrates, carbonaceous, and nitrogen
containing compounds among others. Using n-hexane and n-hexane/isopropanol mixture …

Although normally seen as a problem, current policies and strategic plans concur that if
adequately managed, waste can be a source of the most interesting and valuable products …

Coffee is the second largest traded commodity after petroleum and the second most popular
beverage after water. This big industry is believed to generate huge amount of waste with …

Current ways of managing spent coffee grounds (SCGs) are uneconomical and have
significant environmental impacts. Alternative approaches, such as hydrothermal …

The circular bioeconomy plan is an innovative research based scheme intended for
augmenting the complete utilization and management of bio-based resources in a …

The drawback of biochar as a soil ameliorant is its low-nutrient content while the bottleneck
of struvite production is its high chemical cost. This drew the idea of using designed biochar …