Unsafe drinking water contributes to diarrheal disease and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in low-income contexts, especially among children under five years of age. Household-level water treatment interventions have previously been deplo...
Plastics are used for various applications, including in the food and beverage industry, for the manufacturing of plastic utensils and straws. The higher utilization of plastic straws has indirectly resulted in the significant disposal of plastic was...
The usage of more than 30 billion straws a year has been reported in the European Union (EU), in 2020, one year before the official ban of single-use plastics in Europe. The impacts of this plastic waste on the environment and on our health are globa...
As a renewable raw material, straw bale represents a sustainable way of construction with minimal environmental impact. This paper focused on life cycle impact assessment of load-bearing straw bale residential building. Product stage from raw materia...
Straw return and plastic film mulching are two critical management measures that not only maintain high and stable crop yields, but also have a significant impact on the ecological environment. However, there is still a lack of research on the compre...
Straw returning has been shown to improve farmland soil, increase crop yield, and reduce global warming. This study investigated the models of six rice straw-returning techniques based on the life cycle assessment method. Compared to the direct modes...
To accelerate building sector decarbonization, construction systems must combine high operational efficiency with bio-based carbon storage and circular design. This study evaluates a technological framework for reversible bio-based prefabrication thr...
This study investigates the environmental and energy performance of rice straw-based energy pathways in Egypt, combining life cycle assessment (LCA) with supply chain optimization to improve system efficiency. The analysis covers thirteen governorate...
With the rapid development of the automotive industry, China is facing increasing challenges related to energy security and air pollution; furthermore, the development of the fuel ethanol industry has become an important strategic concern for China....
This study assessed the environmental performance and energy efficiency of electricity generation from rice straw using a combined gasification and internal combustion engine (G/ICE). A life cycle assessment (LCA) was performed to consider the conver...
Facility cucumber cultivation generates large quantities of straw residues in China, and composting represents a dominant recycling strategy for these organic wastes. However, conventional composting is accompanied by considerable greenhouse-gas emis...
Unsustainable rice straw management causes environmental impacts; hence, utilisation of rice straw for bioenergy is a promising strategy for sustainable rice straw management. Although rice straw has a high potential for bioenergy generation, the who...
Biomass could substitute fossil fuels in heat- and power-generation projects to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas from many stages of the life cycle. The Nordjylland Power Station, one of Denmark’s largest power plants, is a 100% coal-fir...
Anthropogenic global warming and the depletion of nonrenewable resources necessitate a transition towards bioenergy to accelerate sustainable development and carbon neutrality. This study quantified the availability and energy potential of crop (cere...
In addressing the pivotal challenges of food security and environmental sustainability in China, this investigation rigorously assesses the lifecycle ramifications of quintuple straw utilization methodologies in Xinyang. Utilizing the comprehensive f...
Straw substitution for coal in direct-fired power generation can significantly reduce pollutant emissions. However, there are numerous challenges to using straw in direct-burning power generation, and the question of benefits also looms large. In thi...
In the present study, we investigated whether a non-invasive metabolic heat flux analysis could serve the determination of the functional traits in free-living saprotrophic decomposer fungi and aid the prediction of fungal influences on ecosystem pro...
Understanding the influence of method choices on results in life-cycle assessments is essential to draw informed conclusions. As the climate impact of bioenergy remains a debated topic, the focus of this study is how the chosen temporal framing influ...
An innovative water-treatment process consisting in reducing the nitrate concentration by using an active silica filter obtained from ashes produced during rice-straw thermal treatment has been developed by the LIFE LIBERNITRATE project. A life-cycle...
High-water-content dredged clay is a water-rich sediment that requires sustainable, resource-oriented treatment, but conventional ordinary Portland cement (OPC) stabilization is hindered by excessive water-to-binder ratios, suppressed hydration, and...
Among the approaches to facilitating negative CO2 emissions is biochar production. Biochar is generated in the pyrolysis of certain biomasses. In the pyrolysis process, carbon in the biomass is turned into a solid, porous, carbon-rich, and stable mat...
Rice is a staple food crop, and its production generates large volumes of agricultural waste, rice straw. Several studies have proven that open-field burning and soil incorporation are unsustainable practices of managing rice straw, but remain as pre...
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Biological aging has an abrupt beginning in women, changing their body and perceptions, which are not accepted easily because the actual stereotypes are focused on youth and anti-aging. Our interest was to explore what the self-perception of aging (S...
Straw bale building construction is attracting a revived public interest because of its potential for reduced carbon footprint, hygrothermal comfort, and energy savings at an affordable price. The present paper aims to summarize the current knowledge...
Farm leftovers, particularly crop residues, are a key source of renewable energy in Canada. The nation’s robust agricultural industry provides ample biomass, derived from forestry and agriculture resources, for energy generation. Crop residues,...
The construction sector accounts for 39% of GHG emissions, being the main contributor to embodied carbon emissions of building materials, and operational energy consumption for indoor thermal comfort. Cereal straw, an agricultural by-product, is emer...
There is a need to address the limitations of wheat straw (WS) as a raw biomass fuel, promote its valorisation into a high-quality renewable solid fuel, and enable this fuel to replace fossil fuels in applications such as power plants and industrial...
With reference to the province of Novara in northwest Italy, this study aims to raise awareness about the environmental benefits that can derive from the use of alternative rice straw management practices to those currently in use, also highlighting...
Rice straw as a growth substrate for soilless sod production not only avoids the damage to farmland soil deterioration but also solves the difficulty in disposing of a large amount of agricultural straw waste. This study was designed to explore the f...
Agricultural straw is a renewable agricultural residue with potential for sustainable pavement applications, but research on its use as reinforcement in asphalt mixtures remains fragmented. This review systematically summarizes the characteristics, m...
The need to effectively control and reduce energy consumption in buildings has become a global concern, prompting an increasing number of studies on the energy efficiency of straw buildings. However, previous review articles on straw research have pr...
The depletion of fossil fuels and climate change concerns are drivers for the development and expansion of bioenergy. Promoting biomass is vital to move civilization toward a low-carbon economy. To meet European Union targets, it is required to incre...
Laboratory experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of NPK fertilizer, soil type (silty clay and sandy loam) with no history of pesticide application, temperature (28 and 40 °C), and maize residue on the half-life of atrazine herbici...
In recent years, the unsustainable behaviors of straw utilization have led to waste straw being one of the sources of agricultural non-point source pollution. Studying the resource utilization of crop straw is conducive to expediate the development o...
The development of new and improvement of existing technologies based on the use of waste products from various industries or recyclable materials is a current trend in the construction industry. Including in the composition of binders and concrete b...
The biological degradation of plant residues in the soil or on the soil surface is an integral part of the natural life cycle of annual plants and does not have adverse effects on the environment. Crop straw is characterized by a complex structure an...
Straw return is an important practice for replenishing soil organic matter (SOM) and recycling agricultural residues. This review synthesizes straw decomposition characteristics, drivers, and agroecological effects across China’s four major gra...
Straw checkerboards, as a mechanical sand barrier, are one of the most important engineering measures for sand control and vegetation restoration. In this study, we characterized the physical and chemical properties of soil crust treated with straw c...
Continuous incorporation of rice straw has caused significant CH4 emissions from the paddy field production system in East China. Anaerobic digestion (AD) of the rice straw has been considered as a promising approach that could not only mitigate the...
In this article, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) was applied to investigate the potential environmental impacts of bioethanol production pathways from six biomass feedstock options. The LCA cradle-to-gate modelling case studies involve (i) corn stover, (...
When manual harvesting of sugarcane was discontinued in many regions of Brazil, interest in power generation by burning the bagasse and straw in cogeneration units rose. Exergy analysis is often applied to increase the thermodynamic yield of these pl...
The short-term shelf life of straw mushrooms (Volvariella volvacea) is a major challenge, hampering their wide distribution. Thus, the aim of this work was to develop a novel active packaging composed of essential oils (EOs), particularly clove oil (...
Agricultural activities produce an estimated amount of 32.7 MToe/year of residues in EU countries. They are mostly disposed in landfills, incinerated without any control, or abandoned in fields, causing severe impacts on human health and environment....
Construction materials have a direct impact on the environment, on people, and their health. In addition, building insulation plays a decisive role in terms of energy consumption of buildings and regarding CO2-emissions over their whole life cycle. I...
The purpose of this paper is to discover the impacts of contradictory factors in the application of agricultural residue with sustainable biofuel benefits. Based on the Life cycle assessment (LCA) approach, the quantitative LCA assessment model and a...
The development of reuse processes for plant by-products for both animal and human food offers numerous possibilities for quality-of-life improvements that align with a circular economy model. For this reason, we divided this study into two experimen...
China is rich in biomass resources, taking straw as an example, the amount of straw in China is 735 million tons in 2021. However, at the level of resource use, biomass resources have the practical difficulties of being widely distributed and difficu...
Cactus pear cladodes are used as forage in the most arid regions. In Italy, the human consumption of prickly pear fruits and juice is gradually increasing for their numerous health benefits. In manufacturing plants that produce prickly pear juice, se...
Maize, as a major cereal crop in China, is vital for national food security, and appropriate nitrogen fertilization is essential for its growth and yield. Avoiding excessive nitrogen fertilizer application while maintaining productivity remains a cri...
The primary objective of the present study was to transform discarded agricultural remnants and poultry waste into value-added materials. Rice straw and chicken feathers are disposed of after their primary consumption into landfills or are incinerate...
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