Zero Waste Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

The municipal activities and every branch of industry, from agriculture to heavy industry, generate waste streams that should be managed in an environmentally safe manner, taking into account economic and organizational realities as well as social expectations.

Technologies generally referred to as "zero waste technologies" are currently the subject of many studies and the assumptions of programs and policies implemented in individual countries and in the European Union. In a special edition, we would like to present work carried out in a wide range of scientific disciplines and industries such as chemical engineering, construction, environmental engineering, agriculture, management sciences, telecommunications, agri-food processing, waste management, all industries in which technologies are implemented waste-free. The common field of the presented research should be the pursuit of reduction or elimination of waste generation or improvements and innovations in the system of management and treatment of waste in general or its individual streams.

Sustainable development of the economy is related, inter alia, to the implementation of technologies that eliminate or limit the production of waste. In addition, the following issues are of key importance for the development of non-waste and low-waste technologies:

• Circular economy,
• Sustainable animal production technology,
• Modern methods of waste treatment,
• Wastes as energy resources,
• Management of waste biomass,
• Clean, low-waste and non-waste technologies,
• Sustainable design,
• Management of industrial waste / by-products,
• Intelligent solutions supporting waste-free technologies,
• Innovative energy solutions in non-waste technologies,
• Managing innovative projects in the area of waste-free technologies.

An important goal of the special edition is to present the production and organizational activities, technologies, research, ideas and recommendations that are carried out to reduce the mass of generated waste, and thus fit into the mainstream of broadly understood sustainable development.

Dr. Piotr Prus
Guest Editor

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