TY - JOUR
T1 - Bioconversion of organic wastes into value-added products
T2 - A review
AU - Chavan, Shraddha
AU - Yadav, Bhoomika
AU - Atmakuri, Anusha
AU - Tyagi, R. D.
AU - Wong, Jonathan W. C.
AU - Drogui, Patrick
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for supporting this research. The authors would also like to thank the CREATE-TEDGIEER program for its financial support. The views presented are of authors and have no conflict of interest.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2022/1
Y1 - 2022/1
N2 - Rapid urbanization has increased the demand for food, feed, and chemicals that have in turn augmented the use of fossil-based resources and generation of organic waste. Owning to the characteristics like high abundance, renewability, and ease of accessibility, valorization of organic wastes serves as a potential solution for waste management issues. Several industrial wastes, due to their organic and nutrient-rich composition, have been utilized as a resource for the production of value-added products such as biofuels, biopesticides, biohydrogen, enzymes, and bioplastics via microbial fermentation processes. The process consists of pre-treatment of the waste biomass, production of value-added product in reactors and downstream processing for product's recovery. The integration of new comprehensive technologies for organic waste utilization will also stimulate the transition towards a circular economy. Therefore, the feasibility and sustainability of the production of various value-added products from biowastes and byproduct streams will be discussed in the present review.
AB - Rapid urbanization has increased the demand for food, feed, and chemicals that have in turn augmented the use of fossil-based resources and generation of organic waste. Owning to the characteristics like high abundance, renewability, and ease of accessibility, valorization of organic wastes serves as a potential solution for waste management issues. Several industrial wastes, due to their organic and nutrient-rich composition, have been utilized as a resource for the production of value-added products such as biofuels, biopesticides, biohydrogen, enzymes, and bioplastics via microbial fermentation processes. The process consists of pre-treatment of the waste biomass, production of value-added product in reactors and downstream processing for product's recovery. The integration of new comprehensive technologies for organic waste utilization will also stimulate the transition towards a circular economy. Therefore, the feasibility and sustainability of the production of various value-added products from biowastes and byproduct streams will be discussed in the present review.
KW - Bioconversion
KW - Biofuels
KW - Biorefinery
KW - Organic waste
KW - Value-added products
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85120471084&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.126398
DO - 10.1016/j.biortech.2021.126398
M3 - Review article
C2 - 34822979
AN - SCOPUS:85120471084
SN - 0960-8524
VL - 344
JO - Bioresource Technology
JF - Bioresource Technology
M1 - 126398
ER -
