Food Wastes Conversion to Products for Use in Chemical and Environmental Technology, Material Science and Agriculture

ENZO MONTONERI; ALESSANDRA BIANCO PREVOT; PAOLA AVETTA; ANTONIO ARQUES; LUCIANO CARLOS; GIULIANA MAGNACCA; ENZO LAURENTI; SILVIA TABASSO

The Economic Utilisation of Food Co-Products

Royal Society of Chemistry

Año: 2013; p. 64 - 109

The environmental impact of urban wastes has dramatically increased as a result of increasing population urbanisation and consumption habits. Although nowadays this fact contributes to society a significant economic burden for management and/or disposal, concentration of wastes in urban areas has in turn allowed the collection of natural bio-organic matter in well-confined spaces. The present chapter reports how, through urbanisation and municipal collection practices, urban biowastes have become a low-entropy potential sustainable source of both energy and materials for the chemical industry and society.