Biodegradable Waste Management in the Circular Economy Challenges and Opportunities

This book presents the latest developments in the dynamic field of biodegradable waste management, a critical aspect of the circular economy.  The book is divided into six sections covering the following topics:
The concept of circular economy: The importance of the circular economy, cradle to cradle marketplace, new products from old wastes
Biodegradable waste valorization: Definitions and procedures for the characterization of biodegradable waste, biodegradable waste streams (agriculture, industry, municipal), new sources of biodegradable waste, limitations for the use of biodegradable waste in soil, waste collection systems, legal/regulation aspects.
Technologies for the production of biodegradable waste products (end-products): Biological methods and hybrid technologies, anaerobic digestion, composting, biorefineries 
Positive and negative effect of end-products on soil/environment: Chemical contaminants occurrence in end-products, effect of end-products on the soil microbial communities, the use of end-products on soil
Life cycle perspective: Nutrients recovery, energy and bio-methane production
Challenges and opportunities: The governance and social aspects, biofuels production, matter recovery from biodegradable waste streams – fertilizers, metal recovery, biosorbents and biochar production

Professor Malgorzata Kacprzak, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), Poland; Dean of Faculty, Division of Infrastructure and Environment, Częstochowa University of Technology (CUT), Poland from 2016 to 2020. She is co-author of 92 papers in high cited journals, 8 patents and author of numerous expert opinions for industrial partners, local governments, and the Polish Ministry of Environment. She coordinated the International Academic Partnerships (IAP) project Environmental Safety of Bio-Waste in the Circular Economy from 2018 to 2020

Preface

1.Circular Bioeconomy and Sustainability
Işıl Aksan Kurnaz, Elif Damla Arison, and M. Levent Kurnaz

2. Cradle to Cradle Marketplace
Małgorzata J. Kacpraz

3. New Products from Old Wastes Concept – Analysis of the Current State of CE in the Biodegradable Waste Management

3.1. Valorization to Energy
Ewa Neczaj and Anna Grosser

3.2. Valorization to Matter
Kari-Anne Lyng and Aneta Kowalska

3.3. Valorization of Food Waste to Food
Kari-Anne Lyng

4. Definitions and the Procedures for Characterization of Biodegradable Waste
Helena Raclavská, Jana Rů?ičková, Marek Kucbel, Barbora Rů?ičková, and Konstantin Raclavský

5. Biodegradable Waste Streams
Helena Raclavská, Jana Rů?ičková, Barbora Švédová, Marek Kucbel, Michal Šafář, Konstantin Raclavský, and Elton Luis Da Silva Abel

6. Limitation for Use of Biodegradable Waste onto Soil

6.1. Organic, Inorganic, and Microbiological Contaminations in Biodegradable Waste
Krzysztof Fijałkowski and Anna Kwarciak-Kozłowska

6.2.  Toxicity Assessment
Krzysztof Fijałkowski and Anna Kwarciak-Kozłowska

7. Biodegradable Waste Collection Systems
Jolanta Sobik-Szołtysek

8.  Anaerobic digestion
Anna Grosser and Ewa Neczaj

9. Types of Composting

9.1 Composting
Shahriar Shams and Beston F. Nore

9.2. Vermicomposting
Agnieszka Rorat and Franck Vandenbulcke

10. Biorefineries
Anna Grosser and Ewa Neczaj

11. Impact of Processing Technology on the Chemical Contaminants Occurrence in End Products
Eyob Habte Tesfamariam, Taruvinga Badza, and Craig Cogger

12. Effect of End Products on the Soil Microbial Communities

12.1. Impact of End Products on Microbial Communities with Special Reference to Pathogens
Daquan Sun, Eléonore Attard, and Rémy Guyoneaud 

12.2 Modification of Bio-wastes for Alteration of Soil Microbial Communities
Daquan Sun

13. The Use of End Products on Soil

13.1. The Use of Biodegradable End Products on Soil – Impact on Plant Productivity
Bal Ram Singh, Anna Grobelak, Aneta Kowalska, and Åsgeir Almås

13.2. Biodegradable End Products for Bioremediation of Degraded Areas
Aneta Kowalska, Anna Grobelak, Åsgeir Almås, and Bal Ram Singh

13.3. The Use of Biodegradable End Products for Reclamation of Metal Contaminated Soils
Åsgeir Almås, Aneta Kowalska, Anna Grobelak, and Bal Ram Singh

13.4. Biodegradable Waste: Ecotoxicological/Environmental Assessment
Pauline Courtois, Axel Beauchamp, and Franck Vandenbulcke

14. Restoration, Sequestration, and Modelling of Carbon in Degraded Soils
Kennedy Were, Bal Ram Singh, Eleanor Milne, and George Ayaga

15. Impact of Treatments of Biodegradable Waste for Nutrient Recovery
Eyob Habte Tesfamariam, Craig Cogger, and John Ngoni Zvimba

16. Energy and Biomethane Production
Dagmar Juchelková, Helena Raclavská, Maw Maw Tun, Klaus Koppe, Abdulaziz Atabani, Barbora Švédová, and Marek Kucbel

17. The Governance and Social Aspects
Małgorzata Kacprzak and Iwona Kupich

18. Biofuels – More Than Electricity, Heat, and Biomethane

18.1. The Role of Biofuels in the Circular Economy
Kari-Anne Lyng

18.2. Metal Recovery
Agata Rosińska

18.3. Biosorbents and Biochar Production
Anna Grobelak, Agata Rosińska

18.4. Other Perspectives (e.g. Chitin Recovery, Carbon-Coated Magnet-Sensitive Nanoparticles, Proteins, Carbohydrates, and Humic Acid)
Agata Rosińska

18.5. Biofuel Production from Agricultural Waste
Esra Meşe Erdoğan, Pınar Karagöz, Enes Yilmaz, and Melek Özkan

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