Recycled agroindustrial waste has been of great interest during the last decade as a low-cost and sustainable substrate for fermentation processes. The types of products, yields, and potential applications depend mainly on the waste composition, whic...
Procyanidins are an important group of bioactive molecules known for their benefits to human health. These compounds are promising in the treatment of chronic metabolic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, as they prevent ce...
Agro-industrial waste is highly nutritious in nature and facilitates microbial growth. Most agricultural wastes are lignocellulosic in nature; a large fraction of it is composed of carbohydrates. Agricultural residues can thus be used for the product...
The growing demand for sustainable and renewable materials has intensified interest in agro-industrial waste as an alternative source of cellulose. This review critically examines current approaches to cellulose production from major agro-industrial...
The increasing demand for food necessitates that agri-food systems adopt innovative techniques to enhance food production while optimizing the use of limited resources, such as water. In agriculture, hydrogels are being increasingly used to enhance w...
Medicines are pharmaceutical substances used to treat, prevent, or relieve symptoms of different diseases in animals and humans. However, their large-scale production and use worldwide cause their release to the environment. Pharmaceutical molecules...
Lactic acid is a versatile chemical with a wide range of industrial applications, including food additives as well as the production of biodegradable plastics, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. LA can be produced through carbohydrate fermentation using...
Valorization of agro-industrial waste through greener and biotechnological processes are promising approaches to minimize the generation of agro-industrial waste. Therefore, the study aimed to produce lignocellulolytic enzymes from agro-industrial wa...
The fabrication of bricks commonly consumes relatively high natural resources. To reduce the carbon footprint in the brick production industry, repurposing industrial wastes in the making of sustainable bricks is a recent trend in research and applic...
The agro-industrial sector in Indonesia produces significant amounts of nutrient-rich waste and wastewater, which pose environmental risks but also present opportunities for valorization within a circular bioeconomy. Microalgae provide a promising so...
Agro-industrial wastes are abundant, low-cost feedstocks used for the sustainable production of prebiotic oligosaccharides via enzymatic methods. This review summarizes recent advances, with particular emphasis on studies published after 2020, in the...
Composting is an important technology used to treat and convert organic waste into value-added products. Recently, several studies have been done to investigate the effects of microbial supplementation on the composting of agro-industrial waste. Acco...
The rising climate change concerns over the excessive exploitation of non-renewable sources have necessitated the need for alternative renewable and eco-friendly resources for the production of innovative materials, achieving the targets of bioeconom...
Food and agro-industrial by-products provoke a great environmental and economic impact that must be minimized by adding value to these wastes within the framework of circular economy. The relevance of β-glucans obtained from natural sources (cer...
Proteases are key biocatalysts widely applied in the food, pharmaceutical, detergent, and environmental industries. One of the most costly steps in large-scale enzyme production is the preparation of the culture medium, making agro-industrial wastes...
Global food waste has a huge impact on the environment, as it is a source of greenhouse gas emissions and wasted natural resources. Across the world, over 30% of food is lost or wasted each year. Aside from this, the food industry, as well, is one of...
The grave environmental, social, and economic concerns over the unprecedented exploitation of non-renewable energy resources have drawn the attention of policy makers and research organizations towards the sustainable use of agro-industrial food and...
Due to its pleasant rosy scent, the aromatic alcohol 2-phenylethanol (2-PE) has a huge market demand. Since this valuable compound is used in food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, consumers and safety regulations tend to prefer natural methods for its...
In order to obtain solutions to the coal mining region demand in southern Brazil for high-performance and low-cost technosols within a concept of mineral circularity and sustainable development of the coal sector, this study aims to evaluate the func...
Large-scale production of T1 lipase using conventional culture media is costly. To reduce the cost of production, an alternative growth medium using local resources has been developed. In this study, the growth of recombinant Escherichia coli and exp...
Fique fibers, native to Colombia, are traditionally used for ropes and bags. In the extraction of long fibers for these purposes, the same amount of short fibers is generated; the short fibers are then discarded in the soil or in landfills. This agro...
The objective of this study was to utilize agro-lignocellulosic wastes for growing oyster mushroom which become problematic for disposal. Pleurotus ostreatus was cultivated on five agro-industrial wastes: rice straw (RS), wheat straw (WS), corncobs (...
Arabica-coffee and Theobroma-cocoa agroindustrial wastes were treated with NaOH and characterized to efficiently remove Pb(II) from the aqueous media. The maximum Pb(II) adsorption capacities, qmax, of Arabica-coffee (WCAM) and Theobroma-cocoa (WCTM)...
This research presents a proposal for alkali-activated permeable concrete composites with the use of industrial by-products, including ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) and waste-foundry sand, as well as agro-desecrate product, i.e., sugarc...
Herein, the green synthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), assisted by LED light, using the aqueous extracts of agroindustrial waste products, such as avocado seeds (ASs), cocoa pod husks (CPHs), and orange peels (OPs), is presented. Surface plasmo...
(1) Background: The weaning period is a very important stage in the pig life, as during weaning, the animals are very susceptible to pathogens and develop postweaning diarrhoea. The aim of our study was to counteract weaning stress and to improve pig...
Mesophilic anaerobic co-digestion of eight distinct substrate mixtures of agroindustrial and food wastes was assessed to determine the most efficient waste mixture for maximizing hydrogen production. To evaluate the impact of adding various mixtures...
Water pollution is an environmental problem that affects the ecosystem and living beings. Adsorption is one of the best technologies for the removal of heavy metals. Since waste recovery is the basis of the Circular Economy, agro-industrial waste is...
This article sets out a method for producing chitin and chitosan by Cunninghamella elegans and Rhizopus arrhizus strains using a green metabolic conversion of agroindustrial wastes (corn steep liquor and molasses). The physicochemical characteristics...
Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) contamination of feed used in poultry farming is an important issue in food safety since it compromises animal productivity and leads to the transfer of toxic waste to the food chain. In this sense, as an alternative to convention...
L-methioninase is an enzyme that has recently gained significant interest in the scientific community because of its potential as a targeted therapy for cancer. This study aims to isolate and identify extremophilic bacteria that could produce L-methi...
The contamination of water bodies is becoming more frequent due to uncontrolled discharges into them, including those of domestic or industrial wastewater (WW) characterized by the presence of heavy metals, a high pathogenic load, pesticides, and pha...
The use of agro-industrial waste to obtain biochar has emerged as an environmentally friendly, low-cost, effective, profitable, and sustainable strategy for the removal of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), a highly toxic and carcinogenic mycotoxin of importance i...
This study addresses the need for sustainable approaches in textile wastewater treatment by investigating laccase production with the white-rot fungus Schizophyllum commune TMF3 using agro-industrial waste as a substrate. Laccase was produced via sol...
A huge amount of waste is produced annually by the food processing industry which must be valorized into high-value products. Therefore, the aim of this work involves the use of such wastes for production of β-glucans from medicinal basidiomycet...
As a consequence of intense industrialization in the last few decades, the amount of agro-industrial wastes has increasing, where new forms of valorization are crucial. In this work, five residual biomasses from Maranhão (Brazil) were investigated as...
Bacterial cellulose (BC) is emerging as an attractive large-scale polymer due to its superior properties. The dominant static culture for BC fermentation by bacteria or microbial consortium results in low productivity. Agitated culture, as an industr...
Theobroma cacao agro-industrial waste (WTC) has been characterized and tested as an effective biosorbent to remove Cd(II) from aqueous media. At the optimum pH of 5.0, a maximum adsorption capacity of qe,max = 58.5 mg g−1 was determined. The st...
The increasing generation of agro-industrial waste has intensified soil and water contamination, as well as the eutrophication of water bodies, impacting biodiversity and human health. This highlights the need for responsible management to meet Susta...
The European Environment Agency believes that circular economy strategies could substantially contribute to CO2 emissions reduction. Therefore, it is necessary that the agro-industrial sector identifies sustainable technologies for side-stream manage...
The instrumental analysis of complex mixtures of sugars often requires derivatization to enhance the method’s selectivity and sensitivity. 1-Phenyl-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone (PMP) is a common sugar derivatization agent used in high-performance liqu...
Agro-industrial organic wastes differ markedly in moisture, structure, biochemical composition, nutrient value, and contaminant risk, so pretreatment should be selected from the limiting feedstock constraint rather than from a generic technology hier...
Native Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) isolated from fruits and vegetables in Chile’s Maule Region were identified as Lactiplantibacillus plantarum and L. pentosus. Their growth and lactic acid production were evaluated under furan inhibitor stress...
The use of agro-industrial wastes to obtain compounds with a high added-value is increasing in the last few years in accordance with the circular economy concept. In this work, a cascade extraction approach was developed based on ultrasound-assisted...
The guarana seed peel (GSP), an agroindustrial waste, was characterized for its chemical composition and evaluated for its antimicrobial activity as a potential source of antibacterial compounds for wastewater disinfection using UPLC-QTOF-MS analysis...
The large-scale production of microbial bioplastics remains limited by high production costs, reliance on refined substrates, and inefficient utilization of agro-industrial residues. Although sugarcane bagasse has been explored as a carbon source for...
Composts are widely used in horticulture as organic amendments to improve the properties of soils. Composts have also been reported to enhance the disease suppressive potential of soils and, therefore, could be used as a strategy for managing plant d...
The increasing generation of agro-industrial waste and its improper disposal have raised significant environmental concerns, highlighting the urgent need for sustainable alternatives which would repurpose these materials. In this context, enzymes suc...
This study develops and assesses sustainable polyvinyl chloride (PVC) composites reinforced with agro-industrial waste fillers, integrating an ontology-based lifecycle assessment (LCA) framework to enhance sustainability evaluation. Agro-waste reinfo...
The demand for microbial pectinase has increased due to its vast applications in different industries. The current study dealt with the synthesis of pectinase by a novel native strain Aspergillus cervinus ARS2 using agro-industrial waste. Comparative...
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