Dear Colleagues,

Worldwide concerns regarding fossil fuel reserve exhaustion is not only associated with energy security but also with the future availability of a wide number of compounds that are currently produced through petrochemical routes. The search for an alternative source able to replace petrochemical derivatives while promoting a sustainable development gave rise to considering organic wastes a valuable feedstock for producing energy and products. Within this approach, the valorization of organic wastes does not only help to solve environmental pollution but could also contribute to the transition from a linear to a renewable circular economy. In this regard, biological processes are considered sustainable and cost-effective technologies to valorize different kinds of organic wastes (municipal solid waste, agroindustrial wastes, lignocellulosic biomass, microalgae, food industry effluents, etc.) into biochemicals with a high industrial interest, including fatty acids, succinic acid, lactic acid, bioethanol, biopolymers, amino acids, and biohydrogen, among others.

The Special Issue will be focused on organic waste valorization via biological processes into added-value products. The main topics include but are not limited to the following:

• New biological processes;
• Process optimization;
• Biofuel production;
• Bioenergy production;
• Green chemical production;
• Waste valorization;
• Product recovery;
• Microbial analysis.

Dr. Silvia Greses
Guest Editor

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• fermentative processes
• innovative bioprocesses
• bioprocess optimization
• added-value bioproducts
• green chemicals
• circular economy
• organic wastes
• microbial community