Innovative Approaches to Circular Waste Management: Leveraging Marine and Agricultural Resources for Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

Aquaculture is the fastest-growing animal food production sector worldwide, serving as a primary source of aquatic food for human consumption. However, it faces significant criticism for its environmental impacts. Simultaneously, the rising global demand for food generates abundant agricultural wastes daily. The limited and often improper management of these wastes has created an urgent need for strategies that promote their timely utilization and valorization, ensuring agricultural sustainability and food security. Transitioning to a circular economy offers a promising pathway to address these issues. By rethinking waste management in aquaculture and agriculture, we can create closed-loop systems that minimize waste, recover valuable resources, and reduce environmental impact.

We are pleased to invite authors to submit research articles and review papers focused on innovative strategies for utilizing waste from aquaculture and agriculture. Papers that focus on integrating marine waste into agriculture practices and vice versa are highly encouraged as they can allow for the fostering of synergies that enhance sustainability across both sectors.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Valorization of aquaculture and agriculture waste;
• Extraction, encapsulation and value-added products;
• Sustainable biofertilizer and biogas production;
• New materials production;
• Microbial bioremediation of waste;
• Waste-to-energy technologies;
• Life cycle assessment of waste management practices;
• Socio-economic impacts of waste utilization.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Erika Dobroslavić
Dr. Ivona Elez Garofulić
Guest Editors

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