Bioplastic from renewable biomass: a facile solution for a greener environment

G Coppola, MT Gaudio, CG Lopresto, V Calabro… - Earth systems and …, 2021 - Springer
Environmental pollutions are increasing day by day due to more plastic application. The
plastic material is going in our food chain as well as the environment employing microplastic …

[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 …

An overview of the recent trends on the waste valorization techniques for food wastes

A Nayak, B Bhushan - Journal of environmental management, 2019 - Elsevier
A critical and up-to-date review has been conducted on the latest individual valorization
technologies aimed at the generation of value-added by-products from food wastes in the …

Food waste generation and industrial uses: A review

F Girotto, L Alibardi, R Cossu - Waste management, 2015 - Elsevier
Food waste is made up of materials intended for human consumption that are subsequently
discharged, lost, degraded or contaminated. The problem of food waste is currently on an …

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 …

Utilization of food waste streams for the production of biopolymers

S Ranganathan, S Dutta, JA Moses… - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
Uncontrolled decomposition of agro-industrial waste leads to extensive contamination of
water, land, and air. There is a tremendous amount of waste from various sources which …

Reviewing the anaerobic digestion of food waste: From waste generation and anaerobic process to its perspectives

C Morales-Polo, MM Cledera-Castro… - Applied Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Discharge of waste in general, and food waste, in particular, is considered one of the major
environmental problems today, as waste generation increases continuously, reaching …

The present state of the use of palm oil fuel ash (POFA) in concrete

HM Hamada, GA Jokhio, FM Yahaya… - … and Building Materials, 2018 - Elsevier
Concrete industry consumes considerably large quantities of natural resources in addition to
generating toxic gases, such as CO 2, in the atmosphere. In order to achieve more …

Can polyhydroxyalkanoates be produced efficiently from waste plant and animal oils?

A Surendran, M Lakshmanan, JY Chee… - … in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are a potential replacement for some petrochemical-based
plastics. PHAs are polyesters synthesized and stored by various bacteria and archaea in …

Progress in the valorization of fruit and vegetable wastes: Active packaging, biocomposites, by-products, and innovative technologies used for bioactive compound …

MS Mohd Basri, NN Abdul Karim Shah, A Sulaiman… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
According to the Food Wastage Footprint and Climate Change Report, about 15% of all fruits
and 25% of all vegetables are wasted at the base of the food production chain. The …