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ClearHyperthermophilic Composting Technology for Organic Solid Waste Treatment: Recent Research Advances and Trends
This review compares conventional thermophilic composting with the emerging hyperthermophilic composting (HTC) approach for organic solid waste treatment, highlighting HTC's advantages in speed, efficiency, and pathogen elimination while identifying remaining challenges for large-scale adoption.
Composting as a Sustainable Solution for Organic Solid Waste Management: Current Practices and Potential Improvements
This systematic review of composting practices finds that technological advances like microbial inoculants and in-vessel systems have improved efficiency, but managing contaminants such as heavy metals and microplastics in compost remains a significant challenge. The presence of microplastics in organic waste streams threatens compost quality and can introduce plastic pollution into agricultural soils.
A review on the recent advances in electrochemical treatment technologies for sludge dewatering and alternative uses
This review examined recent advances in electrochemical treatment technologies for sludge dewatering and alternative uses, highlighting how these methods can address challenges including pathogen removal and microplastic contamination in municipal wastewater sludge.
Research Progress on Efficient Aerobic Composting Technology for Livestock and Poultry Manure
This review systematically examines efficient aerobic composting technologies for livestock and poultry manure, summarizing advances in controlling heavy metal contamination, antibiotic residues, estrogens, and microplastics while reducing greenhouse gas emissions during the composting process.
From Waste to Watts: Updates on Key Applications of Microbial Fuel Cells in Wastewater Treatment and Energy Production
This review summarizes advances in microbial fuel cell technology for simultaneous wastewater treatment and electricity generation, highlighting improvements in electrode materials, reactor designs, and microbial communities that have increased power output and treatment efficiency.
Bioelectrochemical anaerobic digestion mitigates microplastic pollution and promotes methane recovery of wastewater treatment in biofilm system
Researchers found that bioelectrochemical systems can simultaneously break down microplastics in wastewater and recover methane gas for energy. The systems enhanced the degradation of polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride particles while maintaining healthy biofilm communities on the electrodes. The study suggests that combining electrochemistry with biological treatment could offer a practical approach to both microplastic removal and renewable energy recovery from wastewater.
Microbial regulation of organic solid waste composting: Lignocellulose degradation (fertilization), process gas emissions, and containment of typical pollutants
This review examines how microbial agents can improve composting of organic solid waste by enhancing lignocellulose breakdown, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and managing pollutants including microplastics. Researchers found that inoculating compost with bacteria, fungi, and actinomycetes accelerates decomposition, promotes humus formation, and can decrease heavy metal bioavailability and degrade antibiotics. The study suggests that complex microbial formulations show greater stability and environmental adaptability due to synergistic effects.
Bioconversion Progresses of Organic Solid Waste
This review summarizes recent research progress on biotechnologies for organic solid waste treatment including landfilling, composting, anaerobic digestion, and anaerobic fermentation, framing these as green and clean approaches to resource recovery. The authors assess achievements in reduction, harmlessness, and resource utilization of organic solid waste amid growing global resource and energy shortages.
Emerging electrochemical tools for microplastics remediation and sensing
This review examines emerging electrochemical approaches for both detecting and remediating microplastics in the environment, highlighting their advantages over traditional methods and identifying key challenges and opportunities for developing practical electrochemical tools to address microplastic pollution.
Microplastic Recovery and Conversion Pathways: The Most Recent Advancements in Technologies for the Generation of Renewable Energy
This review examines current technologies for recovering energy from microplastics, evaluating pyrolysis, gasification, electrochemical methods, and hybrid biomass-based approaches in terms of energy balance, carbon conversion, product composition, process efficiency, and scalability. The authors found pyrolysis to be the most scalable method, producing valuable oils and gases, but highlighted that all reviewed technologies face challenges handling the heterogeneous composition and small particle sizes characteristic of MP feedstocks.
Microplastic pollution remediation: a comprehensive review on electrochemical advanced oxidation processes (EAOPs) for degradation in wastewater
This review critically analyzed electrochemical advanced oxidation processes (EAOPs) for microplastic degradation in wastewater, examining reactive oxygen species mechanisms and identifying the most promising process configurations and future strategies for scaling up electrochemical microplastic treatment.
The Application of Electrochemical Methods in Water Treatment
This review examines electrochemical methods for water treatment, covering electrocoagulation, electrooxidation, and electrodeposition processes and their applications for removing heavy metals, organic pollutants, and emerging contaminants including microplastics from water.
Food Waste–Derived Organic Fertilizers: Critical Insights, Agronomic Impacts, and Pathways for Sustainable Adoption
This review critically examined four conversion routes for turning food waste into organic fertilizers—composting, vermicomposting, anaerobic digestion, and pyrolysis—evaluating their impacts on soil health, nutrient cycling, crop yield, and environmental trade-offs including microplastic contamination.
Insights into the impact of polyethylene microplastics on methane recovery from wastewater via bioelectrochemical anaerobic digestion
Researchers found that polyethylene microplastics inhibited methane recovery in bioelectrochemical anaerobic digestion systems by disrupting microbial communities and electrochemical performance, though low concentrations had less severe effects.
Review on advances in toxic pollutants remediation by solid waste composting and vermicomposting
Researchers review how composting and vermicomposting — using earthworms and microbes to break down organic waste — can neutralize heavy metals and persistent chemical pollutants in solid waste streams. Notably, earthworms have been found to break microplastics down into even smaller nanoplastics during digestion, raising new questions about whether vermicomposting spreads rather than eliminates plastic contamination.
The exploitation of bio-electrochemical system and microplastics removal: Possibilities and perspectives
This review explores bio-electrochemical systems as a sustainable alternative for removing microplastics from water, since current removal methods are costly, energy-intensive, and can release toxic chemicals. Bio-electrochemical systems use microorganisms to generate electricity while simultaneously treating wastewater, offering a cleaner approach. Though still in early research stages, this technology could provide an efficient and environmentally friendly way to reduce microplastic contamination in water supplies.
Examining Current and Future Applications of Electrocoagulation in Wastewater Treatment
This review provides a comprehensive look at electrocoagulation, an electricity-based water treatment technique that can remove a wide range of pollutants including microplastics from wastewater. The analysis covers decades of research showing the method is effective, relatively low-cost, and environmentally friendly compared to chemical treatments. The authors identify microplastic removal as one of the promising newer applications of this technology.
Enhanced degradation and methane production of food waste anaerobic digestate by microbial electrolysis cell for a long-term running
This study optimized a microbial electrolysis cell for enhancing methane production from food waste anaerobic digestate, achieving significant improvements in organic matter removal and biogas yield. Improved biogas production from waste supports sustainable energy goals while also processing the organic matter associated with plastic contamination in food waste streams.
Análise da eficiência de compostagem e vermicompostagem para resíduos sólidos orgânicos com inserção de material biodegradável
Researchers analysed the efficiency of composting and vermicomposting for organic solid waste in Brazil, incorporating biodegradable materials and evaluating how these treatment approaches can reduce the approximately 45.3% of urban solid waste that currently ends up in landfills.
Removal Potential of Microplastics in Organic Solid Wastes via Biological Treatment Approaches
This review examines biological treatment approaches — including composting, anaerobic digestion, and vermicomposting — for removing microplastics from organic solid wastes, finding that while these methods can reduce microplastic abundance, significant knowledge gaps remain about fragmentation and fate during treatment.
Electrifying anaerobic granular sludge for enhanced waste anaerobic digestion and biogas production
Researchers investigated bioelectrochemical anaerobic digestion (BEAD) using intact anaerobic granular sludge (AGS) as a biocatalyst, optimizing methane production by controlling applied voltage and acetate loading. The system exploited interactions between exoelectrogens and methanogens within the AGS to enhance biogas yields compared to conventional anaerobic digestion.
The role of microbial inoculum in improving composting performance and promoting compost maturation: A review
This review critically examines microbial inoculation strategies for accelerating composting performance and promoting compost maturation, synthesizing findings on single-strain and consortia inocula and their effects on composting phases, microbial succession, and physicochemical parameters. The authors identify how strategic microbial inoculation can enhance nutrient balance, reduce composting time, and improve the quality of finished compost.
Review of green technologies for the removal of microplastics from diverse environmental sources
This review surveys green technologies being developed to remove microplastics from water, soil, air, and biological systems. Researchers evaluate methods including bioremediation, advanced filtration, and electrochemical approaches as alternatives to conventional treatment. The study emphasizes the need for scalable, environmentally friendly removal technologies given the growing accumulation of microplastics across diverse ecosystems.
Microorganism-Mediated Microplastic Degradation Methods and Mechanism
This review examines microorganism-mediated methods and mechanisms for microplastic degradation, covering advanced oxidative processes, electrochemical oxidation, direct photodegradation, and biological degradation pathways. The authors summarize current knowledge on microbial treatment approaches as an alternative to conventional methods unsuited to the small particle size of microplastics.