Environmental implications, potential value, and future of food-waste anaerobic digestate management: A review
- Authors
- O'Connor, James; Mickan, Bede S; Rinklebe, Jorg; Song, Hocheol; Siddique, Kadambot H. M.; Wang, Hailong; Kirkham, M. B; Bolan, Nanthi S
- Issue Date
- Sep-2022
- Publisher
- ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
- Keywords
- Food waste; Digestate; Environmental management; Fertiliser; Post-treatment
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, v.318, pp.1 - 12
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- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
- Volume
- 318
- Start Page
- 1
- End Page
- 12
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/188718
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115519
- ISSN
- 0301-4797
- Abstract
- Globally, the valorisation of food waste into digestate through the process of anaerobic digestion is becoming increasingly popular. As a result, a large amount of food-waste digestate will need to be properly utilised. The utilisation of anaerobic digestion for fertiliser and alternative uses is essential to obtain a circular bioeconomy. The review aims to examine the environmental management of food-waste digestate, the value of digestate as a fertiliser and soil conditioner, and the emerging uses and improvements for post-anaerobic digestion reuse of digestate. Odour emissions, contaminants in food waste, emission and leaching of nutrients into the environment, and the regulations, policies, and voluntary initiatives of anaerobic digestion are evaluated in the review. Food waste digestate can provide essential nutrients, carbon, and bio-stimulants to soils and increase yield. Recently, promising research has shown that digestates can be used in hydroponic systems and potentially replace the use of synthetic fertilisers. The integration of anaerobic digestion with emerging uses, such as extraction of valueadded products, algae cultivation, biochar and hydrochar production, can further reduce inhibitory sources of digestate and provide additional economic opportunities for businesses. Moreover, the end-product digestate from these technologies can also be more suitable for use in soil application and hydroponic use.
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