Waste valorisation: waste streams in a circular economy

Overview of Waste Valorisation Concepts from a Circular Economy Perspective / Jinhua Mou, Chong Li, Xiaofeng Yang, Guneet Kaur, Carol Sze Ki Lin -- Waste as a Bioresource / Gayatri Suresh, Joseph Sebastian, Satinder Kaur Brar -- Treatment of Waste / Ravindran Balasubramani, Vasanthy Muthunarayanan, Karthika Arumugam, Rajiv Periakaruppan, Archana Singh, Soon Woong Chang, Thamaraiselvi Chandran, Gopal Shankar Singh, Selvakumar Muniraj -- Valorisation of Agricultural Waste Residues / Srinivas Mettu, Pobitra Halder, Savankumar Patel, Sazal Kundu, Kalpit Shah, Shunyu Yao, Zubeen Hathi, Khai Lun Ong, Sandya Athukoralalage, Namita Roy Choudhury, Naba Kumar Dutta, Carol Sze Ki Lin -- Valorisation of Woody Biomass / Md Khairul Islam, Chengyu Dong, Hsien-Yi Hsu, Carol Sze Ki Lin, Shao-Yuan Leu -- Recovery of Nutrients and Transformations of Municipal/Domestic Food Waste / Divyani Panwar, Parmjit S Panesar, Gisha Singla, Meena Krishania, Avinash Thakur -- Bioconversion of Processing Waste from Agro-Food Industries to Bioethanol: Creating a Sustainable and Circular Economy / Deepak Kumar, Vijay Singh -- Challenges with Biomass Waste Valorisation / Guihua Yan, Yunchao Feng, Sishi Long, Xianhai Zeng, Yong Sun, Xing Tang, Lu Lin -- Life cycle Approaches for Evaluating Textile Biovalorisation Processes: Sustainable Decision-making in a Circular Economy / Karpagam Subramanian, Shauhrat S Chopra, Cakin Ezgi, Xiaotong Li, Carol Sze Ki Lin -- Circular Waste-Based Biorefinery Development / Raffel Dharma Patria, Xiaotong Li, Huaimin Wang, Chenyu Du, Carol Sze Ki Lin, Guneet Kaur.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Series Preface -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Overview of Waste Valorisation Concepts from a Circular Economy Perspective -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Development of (Bio)Chemical Process for Utilization of Waste as a Bioresource -- 1.2.1 Mechanical Pretreatment -- 1.2.2 Physical Pretreatment -- 1.2.3 Chemical Pretreatment -- 1.2.4 Biological Pretreatment -- 1.3 Process Integration for Waste‐Based Biorefinery -- 1.3.1 Food Waste Biorefinery -- 1.3.2 Agricultural Waste Biorefinery -- 1.3.3 Industrial Waste Biorefinery -- 1.3.4 Wastewater Biorefinery -- 1.4 Closed Loop Recirculation in a Bio‐based Economy -- 1.5 Conclusions and Future Trends -- 1.5 References -- Chapter 2 Waste as a Bioresource -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Waste Streams and Their Suitability as Feedstock for Valorisation: Is All Waste a Resource? -- 2.3 (Bio)diversity and Variability of Waste Feedstock -- 2.3.1 Agro‐industrial Wastes -- 2.3.2 Municipal Solid Wastes -- 2.3.3 Livestock Wastes -- 2.3.4 Industrial Wastes -- 2.4 Drivers, Policies and Markets for Value‐added Waste‐derived Products -- 2.5 Conclusions and Future Trends -- 2.5 Acknowledgements -- 2.5 References -- Chapter 3 Treatment of Waste -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Solid Waste Management -- 3.2.1 E‐waste Management -- 3.2.2 Hazardous Waste Management -- 3.2.3 Biomedical Waste Management -- 3.2.4 Plastic Waste Management -- 3.2.5 Solid Waste Management Options -- 3.3 General Approach for Waste Treatment and Conversion to Value‐added Products: Biochemical, Mechanical, and Thermochemical -- 3.3.1 Conventional Treatment -- 3.3.2 Biological/Biochemical Treatment -- 3.3.3 Thermal Methods -- 3.3.4 Open Burning -- 3.3.5 Mechanical Treatment -- 3.4 Factors Influencing Selection of an Appropriate Valorisation Technique for Specific Waste Types.