The Potential of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Production from Food Wastes
Background and objective: Over 1 billion tons of foods are wasted every year (not consumed by humans or animals). Most of this waste ends up in landfills. As the global population increases, mankind must look for more sustainable means of living. A recently popular idea is the use of organic wastes...
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Shahid Behehsti University of Medical Sciences
2019-01-01
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| description | Background and objective: Over 1 billion tons of foods are wasted every year (not consumed by humans or animals). Most of this waste ends up in landfills. As the global population increases, mankind must look for more sustainable means of living. A recently popular idea is the use of organic wastes as carbon feedstocks for fermentation that produces value added products. Polyhydroxyalkanoates are a family of bio-based, biodegradable polymers that can be produced in large quantities using food and food processing wastes as the main feedstocks. In many cases, biocatalysts have been engineered to efficiently use these waste compounds to produce large quantities of useful intracellular polyhydroxyalkanoates.
Results and conclusion: In the current study, various polyhydroxyalkanoates were produced; each with different thermal and mechanical characteristics useful for different applications. If polyhydroxyalkanoate production facilities are established next to food waste accumulation sites (e.g., large landfills), potentials for the economical and sustainable polyhydroxyalkanoate production sound promising.
Conflict of interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-17a8661663be4ccaa9651a1f51d5cdff2022-12-21T18:15:21ZengShahid Behehsti University of Medical SciencesApplied Food Biotechnology2345-53572423-42142019-01-016171810.22037/afb.v6i1.2254210953The Potential of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Production from Food WastesChristopher J. Brigham0Sebastian L. RiedelWentworth Institute of TechnologyBackground and objective: Over 1 billion tons of foods are wasted every year (not consumed by humans or animals). Most of this waste ends up in landfills. As the global population increases, mankind must look for more sustainable means of living. A recently popular idea is the use of organic wastes as carbon feedstocks for fermentation that produces value added products. Polyhydroxyalkanoates are a family of bio-based, biodegradable polymers that can be produced in large quantities using food and food processing wastes as the main feedstocks. In many cases, biocatalysts have been engineered to efficiently use these waste compounds to produce large quantities of useful intracellular polyhydroxyalkanoates. Results and conclusion: In the current study, various polyhydroxyalkanoates were produced; each with different thermal and mechanical characteristics useful for different applications. If polyhydroxyalkanoate production facilities are established next to food waste accumulation sites (e.g., large landfills), potentials for the economical and sustainable polyhydroxyalkanoate production sound promising. Conflict of interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/afb/article/view/22542▪ Biopolymers ▪ Carbon feedstock ▪ Fermentation ▪ Food waste ▪ Polyhydroxyalkanoate |
| spellingShingle | Christopher J. Brigham Sebastian L. Riedel The Potential of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Production from Food Wastes Applied Food Biotechnology ▪ Biopolymers ▪ Carbon feedstock ▪ Fermentation ▪ Food waste ▪ Polyhydroxyalkanoate |
| title | The Potential of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Production from Food Wastes |
| title_full | The Potential of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Production from Food Wastes |
| title_fullStr | The Potential of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Production from Food Wastes |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Potential of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Production from Food Wastes |
| title_short | The Potential of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Production from Food Wastes |
| title_sort | potential of polyhydroxyalkanoate production from food wastes |
| topic | ▪ Biopolymers ▪ Carbon feedstock ▪ Fermentation ▪ Food waste ▪ Polyhydroxyalkanoate |
| url | http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/afb/article/view/22542 |
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