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ClearHarnessing Biogas in India: A Sustainable Pathway for Sustainable Energy Development
This review examines the role of the biogas sector in India in addressing sanitation challenges and providing sustainable energy, analyzing the potential of biogas to reduce plastic and organic waste while generating clean fuel for rural communities.
Circular nutrient management through slurry separation and pyrolysis: a field study
Scientists tested a new way to recycle farm waste by separating liquid and solid parts, then turning the solids into charcoal-like material called biochar. The liquid parts worked well as fertilizer and produced less harmful greenhouse gas emissions than regular animal waste. This method could help farmers grow food more sustainably while reducing environmental pollution that can affect air and water quality in farming communities.
Advancements and Innovations in Harnessing Microbial Processes for Enhanced Biogas Production from Waste Materials
This review examines microbial processes in anaerobic digestion for enhanced biogas production from agricultural residues, food waste, animal manure, and municipal solid waste, covering feedstock selection, microbial community dynamics, and biotechnological innovations. Advanced approaches including co-digestion, pretreatment, and microbial augmentation are highlighted as strategies for improving biogas yields.
Biogenic Materials and Wastes: A Sustainable Source of Clean Energy
This review examines biogenic wastes — from agriculture and industry — as sources of clean energy through processes like fermentation, composting, and combustion. The study is focused on renewable energy from organic waste and is not directly related to microplastic research.
Lignocellulosic biomass from agricultural waste to the circular economy: a review with focus on biofuels, biocomposites and bioplastics
This review examines how agricultural waste rich in lignocellulose can be converted into biofuels, biocomposites, and bioplastics as sustainable alternatives to petroleum-based products. Recent advances in biorefinery technology have improved the ability to process plant-based waste into a range of useful materials. Replacing conventional plastics with bioplastics from agricultural waste could help reduce both plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
Municipal-Based Biowaste Conversion for Developing and Promoting Renewable Energy in Smart Cities
This review explores how cities can convert municipal biowaste into renewable energy sources to address both waste management and energy needs. Researchers discuss technologies like anaerobic digestion, pyrolysis, and gasification for transforming food waste and plant residues into clean fuels. The study highlights that biowaste conversion offers a practical pathway toward smarter, more sustainable urban environments.
Possibilities and Limitations of Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Animal Manure—A Critical Review
This review critically evaluates the possibilities and limitations of anaerobic co-digestion of animal manure with various co-substrates, finding that combining materials can significantly improve biogas yield while enabling simultaneous processing of multiple waste streams.
Agricultural Waste Management for Food Security and Sustainability
This review examines how agricultural waste, including crop residues, animal manure, and food processing by-products, can be transformed into valuable resources through composting, biogas production, and biochar application. The authors highlight that new technologies like AI and IoT are helping optimize these recycling processes. The findings are relevant to microplastic concerns because improper agricultural waste management contributes to soil and water pollution, including plastic contamination from fertilizer coatings and mulch films.
Effects of co-substrates’ mixing ratios and loading rate variations on food and agricultural wastes’ anaerobic co-digestion performance
This study optimized anaerobic co-digestion of food and agricultural waste to produce biogas, exploring how mixing ratios and loading rates affect performance. Diverting organic waste to bioenergy reduces the fraction of municipal waste that enters landfills and ultimately contributes to microplastic generation.
Biological Hydrogen Gas Production from Food Waste as a Sustainable Fuel for Future Transportation
This review examines biological hydrogen gas production from food waste via anaerobic digestion as a sustainable transport fuel, discussing the advantages of hydrogen's high energy density and clean combustion, and evaluating the technical barriers limiting biomass-derived H2 to approximately 1% of current global hydrogen production.
Microbial Degradation of Agricultural and Food Wastes into Value-Added Products
This review covers microbial biodegradation of agricultural and food waste into bioenergy and other products, noting plastic waste from agriculture — including microplastics — as an urgent pollution concern in marine and terrestrial ecosystems. It discusses factors affecting plastic biodegradation and highlights the promise of converting waste into value-added outputs like biogas and fertilizer.
Biogas conversion into biopolymers: strategies to boost process performance
This study explores how biogas — a renewable energy source from organic waste decomposition — can be used as a feedstock to produce biopolymers as alternatives to conventional petroleum-based plastics. Developing sustainable bioplastics from waste streams could help address both plastic pollution and greenhouse gas emissions simultaneously.
Environmental Sustainability Assessment of Advanced Agricultural Waste echnologies and Agricultural Territories
This doctoral thesis assessed the environmental sustainability of advanced agricultural waste treatment technologies using life cycle assessment, examining whether biotechnology-based circular economy alternatives are genuinely more sustainable than conventional approaches. It is a broader sustainability research study not focused specifically on microplastics.
Circular Economy and Sustainable Rural Development
This review examines waste management challenges in rural communities worldwide and the application of circular economy principles to rural contexts, identifying barriers to sustainable resource use and recommending policy and community-level interventions to reduce rural waste generation and improve material recovery.
Co-Valorisation Energy Potential of Wastewater Treatment Sludge and Agroforestry Waste
Not relevant to microplastics — this study characterizes the energy potential of various biomass feedstocks including sewage sludge, forestry waste, swine manure, cork, and biochar as renewable energy co-valorisation resources, finding substantial variation in calorific values across materials.
Analysis of the Efficiency of Landfill Gas Treatment for Power Generation in a Cogeneration System in Terms of the European Green Deal
Researchers analyzed the efficiency of landfill gas treatment for power generation in a cogeneration system in the European context of the Green Deal, assessing the energy and emissions performance of converting biogas from waste decomposition into electricity and heat. The study evaluated this approach as a contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from waste management.
Agro Biopolymer: A Sustainable Future of Agriculture – State of Art Review
This review examined bioplastic production from agricultural waste as a sustainable alternative to conventional plastics, using bibliometric analysis to map research trends linking agricultural waste utilization, bioplastic development, and bioeconomy concepts.
Two Birds with One Stone: Bioplastics and Food Waste Anaerobic Co-Digestion
Researchers investigated anaerobic co-digestion of bioplastics with food waste, finding that certain bioplastics can be simultaneously degraded while boosting biogas yields, supporting circular economy goals by turning both waste streams into renewable energy.
Can Offshore Wind Power Nigeria?
This study evaluates the potential for offshore wind power generation in Nigeria using climate model data, finding sufficient wind resources to support large-scale renewable energy development.
The Advantage of Citrus Residues as Feedstock for Biogas Production: A Two-Stage Anaerobic Digestion System
This paper is not about microplastics. It describes a two-phase biodigestion system for converting citrus fruit waste into biogas and methane for renewable energy production. The study focuses on waste-to-energy technology with no connection to microplastic contamination or human health.
Material and energy flows of industrial biogas plants in Switzerland in the context of the circular economy
Researchers modeled material and energy flows through industrial biogas plants in Switzerland, finding that anaerobic digestion (breaking down organic waste without oxygen) could replace up to 14,000 tonnes of chemical fertilizers annually — but currently allows about 70 tonnes of plastic per year to end up in farm fields. Addressing that plastic contamination is essential if biogas expansion is to support a true circular economy.
Harvesting marine plastic pollutants-derived renewable energy: A comprehensive review on applied energy and sustainable approach.
This review summarized recent research on recovering renewable energy from marine plastic waste through biological, chemical, and thermal conversion processes, evaluating each pathway's carbon efficiency, global warming potential, and economic viability as part of a circular economy approach to plastic pollution.
Sustainable energy from waste organic matters via efficient microbial processes
This review examined the potential for converting waste organic matter, including microplastics, from water and soil sources into sustainable energy through microbial processes. Researchers discussed how anaerobic digestion and other wastewater treatment technologies can help address the environmental challenge of organic waste while producing useful bioenergy and other primary metabolites.
A review on anaerobic co-digestion of livestock manures in the context of sustainable waste management
This review evaluates livestock manure management technologies with a focus on anaerobic co-digestion as an approach to overcome limitations of single-substrate digestion, including process instability and suboptimal methane yields. The authors find that co-digesting manure with carbon-rich substrates improves digestibility through synergistic effects, enhances process stability, and offers a more sustainable waste management pathway given increasing global livestock production.