Processing urban waste is becoming a major challenge, with the current state and
forecasted increase in urbanisation. Finding novel approaches to reduce and recycle this …

Coffee, one of the world's most popular beverages, carries with it a large economic and
environmental burden in the form of spent coffee grounds (SCG), the unutilized portion of the …

Spent coffee grounds (SCG) and coffee silverskin (CS) represent a great pollution hazard if
discharged into the environment. Taking this fact into account, the purpose of this study was …

The coffee industry is one of the most important commercial value chains worldwide.
Nonetheless, it is also associated to several social, economic, and environmental concerns …

Coffee is one of the popular beverages of the world and second largest traded commodity
after petroleum. Coffee is cultivated in about 80 countries across the globe and entangles …

A few million cubic tons of waste are generated annually as a result of coffee processing. As
a beverage, coffee in itself is a rich source of melanoidins, phenolic compounds, and other …

In this work, spent coffee grounds (SCG) were treated using sulfuric acid hydrolysis in order
to isolate the sulfuric acid lignin (SAL). The reactivity of SAL was improved through …

Although normally seen as a problem, current policies and strategic plans concur that if
adequately managed, waste can be a source of the most interesting and valuable products …

Spent coffee grounds (SCG), an important waste product of the coffee industry, contain
approximately 15 wt% of coffee oil. The aim of this work was to investigate the utilization of …

Spent coffee grounds (SCG), obtained during the processing of coffee powder with hot water
to make soluble coffee, are the main coffee industry residues and retain approximately …