Emerging Technologies for Waste Treatment, Pollution Control and Resource Recovery
A special issue of Environments (ISSN 2076-3298).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 August 2025 | Viewed by 1668
Special Issue Editors
Interests: resource circulation; waste treatment and circular economy; carbon capture and utilization
Interests: CO2 capture and utilization; waste recycling and reutilization; mineral carbonation technology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the Industrial Revolution, the amount of waste produced by humans has increased significantly, making our environment uninhabitable. This urgent issue requires immediate attention. For example, while some land is used for landfills, the capacity of these is gradually running out, and, when waste is stored, there is still a risk of contaminating soil and water resources, demonstrating that the current landfills are not the optimal choice.
In these situations, emerging technologies for waste treatment, pollution reduction and control, and resource recovery from waste are essential as they can help us reduce the amount of waste and gain resources without developing new primary resources.
This Environments Special Issue aims to invite Authors to submit original research and review articles focusing on this area. The potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Novel technologies and methods for waste treatment and management without secondary pollution;
- Innovative strategies for pollution reduction, control, and removal;
- Resource recovery from waste through methods including but not limited to hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy, and electrometallurgy;
- Emerging circular economy strategies for waste;
- Novel procedures to enhance the value of waste.
Dr. Cheng-Han Lee
Dr. Hsing Jung Ho
Dr. Fan-Wei Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- waste treatment
- resource circulation
- resource recovery
- metal recovery
- circular economy
- high-value utilization of waste
- pollution reduction
- pollution control
- pollution removal
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