Agri-food Waste Valorisation by Pankaj Chowdhary, Abhay Raj - 9781839168031

Royal Society of Chemistry

Agri-food Waste ValorisationAuthor(s): Pankaj Chowdhary, Abhay Raj\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom\nImprint: Royal Society of Chemistry\nISBN-13: 9781839168031, 978-1839168031\nSynopsis\nThe agri-food industry creates a vast amount of waste each year. This is not just a problem for waste management, in terms of finding space to store waste and preventing escape of harmful waste into the environment; it also represents a loss of resources: the chemicals and energy which have gone into the production of this waste. If current waste streams can be converted into useful resources this will have multiple benefits by reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill or similar, reducing the need for other feedstocks and removing the pressure from feedstocks that could be used as food.\n\nResearch into the different types of waste produced by the agri-food industry and approaches to converting them into useful chemicals or chemical feedstocks has advance.