In recent decades, academia has elaborated a wide range of technological solutions to
recover water, energy, fertiliser and other products from municipal wastewater treatment …

Petroleum-based plastics have come under a lot of scrutiny in the past decade owing to the
properties that made them ubiquitous items; their durability and expendability. The …

Limits in resource availability are driving a change in current societal production systems,
changing the focus from residues treatment, such as wastewater treatment, toward resource …

Volatile fatty acids (VFAs) are key platform chemicals used in a multitude of industries
including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food and agriculture. The current route for VFA …

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 …

Circular economy (CE) is gaining popularity at different levels with the promise of creating
more sustainable processes. In this context, cities are implementing a number of initiatives …

The runaway production and consumption of oil-based plastics are key drivers of global
warming and the increased carbon footprint. Besides, most of this plastic debris ends up in …

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 …

Algae biomass comprises variety of biochemicals components such as carbohydrates, lipids
and protein, which make them a feasible feedstock for biofuel production. However, high …

The tremendous interest received by additive manufacturing (AM) within the biomedical
community is a consequence of the great versatility offered in terms of processing approach …