Valorization of Biowastes into Food, Fuels,
and Chemicals: Towards Sustainable
Environment, Economy, and Society
5
M. Iniya Kumar, S. Naveen, and A. Ramalakshmi
Abstract
The ever increasing global population, continuous dependence on fossil fuels for
chemicals, fuels, feeds, and food substitutes, movement of population towards
urban, and emergence of more urban cities, have created a shift towards more
renewable technologies for sustainable development of environment, economy,
and society. One of the renewable technologies which promotes sustainability is
efficient waste management technologies. Existing waste management
technologies such as open dumping, land filling, and incineration results in
generation of more greenhouse gas emissions. The concept of circular economy
against existing linear economy emphasizes, if the wastes are managed properly
more resources can be extracted out if it, which not only contributes to sustainable
economic development but also to environment and society in general. Wastes
can be broadly classified into degradable (biowastes) and non-degradable waste,
at present the per-capita generation of waste is 0.74 kg/day; as the population
continues to rise the amount of wastes generated will double causing serious
environmental, public, health, and socio-economic and political concerns. In
order to be more sustainable, in the recent years global attention is focused
towards valorization of biowastes into energy, food, feed, chemicals generation.
This chapter deals with different types of wastes viz., biomass, food, industrial,
animal, municipal solid wastes, their characteristics and scope for valorization
into fuels, chemicals, and food.
M. I. Kumar (*) · S. Naveen
Department of Crop Management, Kumaraguru Institute of Agriculture, Erode, India
A. Ramalakshmi
Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India
# Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
V. Venkatramanan et al. (eds.), Sustainable Bioeconomy,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7321-7_5
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and Chemicals: Towards Sustainable
Environment, Economy, and Society
5
M. Iniya Kumar, S. Naveen, and A. Ramalakshmi
Abstract
The ever increasing global population, continuous dependence on fossil fuels for
chemicals, fuels, feeds, and food substitutes, movement of population towards
urban, and emergence of more urban cities, have created a shift towards more
renewable technologies for sustainable development of environment, economy,
and society. One of the renewable technologies which promotes sustainability is
efficient waste management technologies. Existing waste management
technologies such as open dumping, land filling, and incineration results in
generation of more greenhouse gas emissions. The concept of circular economy
against existing linear economy emphasizes, if the wastes are managed properly
more resources can be extracted out if it, which not only contributes to sustainable
economic development but also to environment and society in general. Wastes
can be broadly classified into degradable (biowastes) and non-degradable waste,
at present the per-capita generation of waste is 0.74 kg/day; as the population
continues to rise the amount of wastes generated will double causing serious
environmental, public, health, and socio-economic and political concerns. In
order to be more sustainable, in the recent years global attention is focused
towards valorization of biowastes into energy, food, feed, chemicals generation.
This chapter deals with different types of wastes viz., biomass, food, industrial,
animal, municipal solid wastes, their characteristics and scope for valorization
into fuels, chemicals, and food.
M. I. Kumar (*) · S. Naveen
Department of Crop Management, Kumaraguru Institute of Agriculture, Erode, India
A. Ramalakshmi
Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India
# Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
V. Venkatramanan et al. (eds.), Sustainable Bioeconomy,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7321-7_5
85