Biomass Revival: Rethinking Waste Recycling for a Greener Future
A special issue of Recycling (ISSN 2313-4321).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 October 2025 | Viewed by 690
Special Issue Editor
Interests: waste management; biodiversity; emergent contaminant; waste valorization; ecotoxicology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is increasingly important in today’s world to optimize the use of our precious resources. We live on a planet with limited resources and an ever-increasing population, so it is essential to ensure the future of the upcoming generations by developing our production processes around the concept of a circular economy. A fundamental aspect of this is to give new life to residual biomass. Therefore, rethinking the recycling of such waste is the main idea behind this Special Issue. We invite you to make original scientific contributions that address new paths for the recycling of organic waste derived from all types of industrial, agricultural, livestock, and forestry activities. By considering the conversion of this waste into new products or by-products and it management to obtain final metabolites, we can give it a second life in a sustainable and environmentally responsible way. Of special interest are studies and reviews that link the processes that will allow us to establish a complete cycle of production waste management with the goal of a zero-waste future.
Dr. Salustiano Mato De La Iglesia
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biomass
- recycling
- waste
- circular economy
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