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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Chemical Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2022.
Special Issue Editors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We all are aware that currently, solid waste management is a major concern worldwide. The amount of waste generated has been growing, linked to the economic development of society, and this has led us to unsustainable lifestyles, in which large quantities of valuable resources are discarded as waste. Furthermore, solid waste disposal involves serious risks to human health and the environment that must be avoided.
Nowadays, this issue is approached from different starting points. In some places, management solutions are still being sought to prevent waste from harming people’s health. Meanwhile, this objective has been exceeded in others, where it is now a matter of improving the efficiency of the available techniques to make the most of resources with the lowest environmental burden, following the paradigms of zero waste and circular economy.
In this context, we should take advantage of the easy access to information offered by our interconnected world, and benefit from the recent technological developments that have hugely increased our ability to obtain and process large amounts of data, acquiring novel knowledge from them. This allows us to implement solutions developed in a given context to solve similar cases elsewhere. At the same time, we can characterize each problem more deeply and therefore adapt better alternative solutions.
This volume aims to provide a view of the breadth of perspectives with which solid waste management is tackled internationally. We invite you to submit selected reviews, original case studies, or research articles that present and analyze the following:
- novel solutions to specific waste management challenges that can serve as a reference to others,
- proposals for new methods or results of environmental monitoring that provide new information useful to improve the design or control practices in waste management systems and facilities,
- innovative strategies, technologies, or methods for solid waste management within the framework of the circular economy.
Prof. Dr. Amaya Lobo García de Cortázar
Prof. Dr. Ana Lorena Esteban García
Prof. Dr. María del Consuelo Hernández Berriel
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- waste management
- circular economy
- zero waste
- environmental monitoring
- waste minimization
- reuse
- recycle
- recovery
- pollution
- smart technologies
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Effect of biodried organic waste on lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) plant growth
Authors: Fabian Robles; Ana Belem Piña Guzmán
Affiliation: Tecnológico Nacional de México/Instituto Tecnológico de Toluca, Avda.
Abstract: Biodrying process is a management alternative that removes water from waste by taking advantage of the metabolic heat of the microorganisms that degrade organic matter to obtain a stabilized and dry product called biodried material (BM). Although it has some similarities with composting, biodrying occurs faster than composting and the BM can be used as a solid fuel or in soil bioremediation. The aim of this study was evaluate the phytotoxicity of BM compared to compost (CO), taking as a model the seed germination and growth of the lettuce plant. Both substrates, BM and CO, were made from organic waste (orange (Citrus spp) peel, mulch and grass) and characterized at the end of the bioprocesses. Five treatments were performed with 10 replicates each. BM was mixed with soil at proportions of 1:9, 2:8 and 3:7 (w: w), the negative control was soil (100 %) and the positive control was soil + 30 % CO. Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. var. Buttercrunch) growth in each treatment was monitored for 90 d by evaluating leaf growth, dry biomass and N, P, K and chlorophyll content in the leaves. In treatments with BM, the growth was less than in the positive control, but greater than in the negative control, so BM can be used as a soil improver similar to CO.