Anaerobic digestion (AD) has been identified as an efficient food waste disposal technology
by many researchers. However, a holistic environmental investigation of different AD …

The concept of biorefinery expands the possibilities to extract value from organic matter in
form of either bespoke crops or organic waste. The viability of biorefinery schemes depends …

Food waste, particularly when avoidable, incurs loss of resources and considerable
environmental impacts due to the multiple processes involved in the life cycle. This study …

The need of more effective solutions for sewage sludge management is twofold: i) to
alleviate the overall operating costs for wastewater treatment and ii) to ensure proper …

Particularly in the UK, there is potential for use of large-scale anaerobic digestion (AD)
plants to treat food waste, possibly along with other organic wastes, to produce biogas. This …

A new model for the environmental assessment of environmental technologies, EASETECH,
has been developed. The primary aim of EASETECH is to perform life-cycle assessment …

Uncertainty analysis in LCA studies has been subject to major progress over the last years.
In the context of waste management, various methods have been implemented but a …

Worldwide food production is largely dependent on rock phosphate, a finite raw material
used for the production of concentrated phosphorus fertilizers. With the aim to close the …

Currently, the overwhelming majority of municipal solid waste (MSW) has been treated in
sanitary landfills and incineration plants in China. In future, with the popularization of …

The use of digestate in agriculture is an efficient way to recycle materials and to decrease
the use of mineral fertilizers. The agronomic characteristics of the digestates can promote …