Recovery of value-added products from biowaste: A review.
Yuwen Zhou, Vinay Kumar, Sharareh Harirchi, V S Vigneswaran, Karthik Rajendran, Pooja Sharma, Yen Wah Tong, Parameswaran Binod, Raveendran Sindhu, Surendra Sarsaiya, Deepanraj Balakrishnan, M Mofijur, Zengqiang Zhang, Mohammad J Taherzadeh, Mukesh Kumar Awasthi
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Yuwen Zhou: College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100, China.
Vinay Kumar: Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, Roorkee 247667, Uttarakhand, India.
Sharareh Harirchi: Swedish Centre for Resource Recovery, University of Bor��s, Bor��s 50190, Sweden.
V S Vigneswaran: Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Sciences, SRM University-AP, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh 522240, India.
Karthik Rajendran: Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Sciences, SRM University-AP, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh 522240, India.
Pooja Sharma: Environmental Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 1 Create Way, 138602, Singapore; Energy and Environmental Sustainability for Megacities (E2S2) Phase II, Campus for Research Excellence and Technology Enterprise (CREATE), 1 CREATE Way, Singapore 138602, Singapore.
Yen Wah Tong: Environmental Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 1 Create Way, 138602, Singapore; Energy and Environmental Sustainability for Megacities (E2S2) Phase II, Campus for Research Excellence and Technology Enterprise (CREATE), 1 CREATE Way, Singapore 138602, Singapore; Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive, 117585, Singapore.
Parameswaran Binod: Microbial Processes and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Trivandrum 695 019, Kerala, India.
Raveendran Sindhu: Department of Food Technology, TKM Institute of Technology, Kollam 691505, Kerala, India.
Surendra Sarsaiya: Key Laboratory of Basic Pharmacology and Joint International Research Laboratory of Ethnomedicine of Ministry of Education, Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, Guizhou, China.
Deepanraj Balakrishnan: Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Al Khobar, 31952, Saudi Arabia.
M Mofijur: Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia; Mechanical Engineering Department, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Al Khobar 31952, Saudi Arabia.
Zengqiang Zhang: College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100, China.
Mohammad J Taherzadeh: Swedish Centre for Resource Recovery, University of Bor��s, Bor��s 50190, Sweden.
Mukesh Kumar Awasthi: College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100, China. Electronic address: mukeshawasthi85@nwafu.edu.cn.
This review provides an update on the state-of-the art technologies for the valorization of solid waste and its mechanism to generate various bio-products. The organic content of these wastes can be easily utilized by the microbes and produce value-added compounds. Microbial fermentation techniques can be utilized for developing waste biorefinery processes. The utilization of lignocellulosic and plastics wastes for the generation of carbon sources for microbial utilization after pre-processing steps will make the process a multi-product biorefinery. The C1 and C2 gases generated from different industries could also be utilized by various microbes, and this will help to control global warming. The review seeks to expand expertise about the potential application through several perspectives, factors influencing remediation, issues, and prospects.
