Energy and Matter Recovery from Organic Waste Processing and Reuse: 3rd Edition
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A4: Bio-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 February 2026 | Viewed by 43
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Interests: bioremediation; biotechnology; environmental contaminants; organic waste management; soil organic carbon sequestration
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Interests: soil carbon sequestration; soil remediation; mining; CO2 emissions; soils; environmental biotechnology; soil amendments
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the context of mounting global issues such as climate destabilization, resource depletion, rising pollution levels, and unprecedented demographic pressure, the sustainable management of organic waste has become a priority field in environmental engineering as well as in energy systems. Meanwhile, new social expectations, such as environmental justice, circular economy principles, and carbon neutrality, shape scientific agendas and drive the development of advanced, integrative technologies.
The third issue of the Special Issue "Energy and Matter Recovery from Organic Waste Processing and Reuse" addresses these new priorities. The Special Issue calls on the scientific community to go beyond traditional approaches and to define innovative methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches for the valorization of organic waste streams in the context of circular economy principles and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
As society is progressing towards decarbonization and sustainable material cycles, organic waste from households, industry, agriculture, and municipal systems needs to be revalorized as a secondary resource for energy production, nutrient recovery, and material reuse. This change needs novel biotechnological, thermochemical, and physicochemical solutions that facilitate the safe, efficient, and economically sound treatment of biodegradable material.
We especially encourage contributions that deal with the following:
- Novel concepts for bioenergy and bioresource recovery, i.e., anaerobic digestion, pyrolysis, gasification, and biorefinery principles.
- Sewage sludge and organic waste management and conversion technologies, i.e., life cycle assessment (LCA), risk and impact analysis, and circular bioeconomy principles.
- New concepts for closing energy and material loops, i.e., nutrient recycling, carbon capture, and secondary raw material recovery.
- Policy, regulatory, and socio-economic frameworks for enabling the transition towards zero-waste and net-zero emissions.
- Interdisciplinary studies combining environmental engineering, energy systems, microbiology, materials science, and green chemistry.
This Special Issue aims to be a platform for exchange between engineers, environmental scientists, policymakers, and innovators committed to sustainable development and resource efficiency. By combining frontier science and application, we hope to encourage scalable and replicable models in waste-to-energy and waste-to-resource technologies.
Dr. Anna Grobelak
Dr. Aneta Kowalska
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- organic waste valorization
- circular economy and resource recovery
- sewage sludge and organic waste treatment
- waste-to-bioenergy technologies
- sustainable environmental engineering
- decarbonized energy production
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