Valorisation of cotton post-industrial textile waste into lactic acid: chemo-mechanical pretreatment, separate hydrolysis and fermentation using engineered yeast

Abstract Background The textile industry has several negative impacts, mainly because it is based on a linear business model that depletes natural resources and produces excessive amounts of waste. Globally, about 75% of textile waste is disposed of in landfills and only 25% is reused or recycled, w...

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Main Authors: Marta Simonetti, Pietro Butti, Raffaella Desiré Di Lorenzo, Valeria Mapelli, Paola Branduardi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2024-04-01
Series:Microbial Cell Factories
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-024-02384-3