Harnessing Agri-Food Waste as a Source of Biopolymers for Agriculture
Carlotta Valle,
Monica Voss,
Emanuela Calcio Gaudino
et al.
Abstract:Nowadays, the world is facing a general problem of resource overconsumption and waste overproduction: to address these two issues, the United Nations delivered the 12th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), which has the objective of ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns. Currently, polymers are present in every aspect of our lives and have the disadvantage of mostly coming from fossil sources and causing pollution when disposed of the wrong way. Agriculture plays a key role in the overall wor… Show more
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