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. 2020 Sep 16;6(9):e04891. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04891

Table 1.

Product specific waste from industries.

Types of waste Waste products Food industries Biopolymers References
Abattoir waste Bones, tendons, skin, contents of gastro industrial tract, blood and internal organs, eggshells, shells of seafood Meat, poultry and seafood processing industry Collagen, gelatine, chitin/chitosan, PHA Tarafdar and Biswas (2013), Munasinghe et al. (2015), Arunmozhivarman et al. (2017), Ponkham et al. (2011), Prameela et al. (2017), (Banerjee and Mahapatra (2012)),(Palareti et al. (2016),(Palareti et al., 2016), (Povolo et al. (2012),(Koller and Braunegg, 2015, Koller and Rodr, 2015)
Waste from the rice mill, grist mill, malt house Broken grains, fine dust, husk, malt dust, grain separator waste, straw, bran Grain processing industry PHA Gasser et al. (2014), Cesário et al. (2014), Mostafa and Tayeb (2015), Aslan et al. (2016)
Waste from the milk production unit, cheese production Whey, hydrolysate and cheese residue Dairy processing industry PHA (Carbon and nitrogen sources), xanthan gum Niknezhad et al. (2015), Pais et al. (2015), Colombo et al. (2019)
Waste from preparation and processing of fruit, juice industries, oil mill Vegetable washing water, peel, pomace, molasses, beet pulp, distillate Fruit and vegetables processing industries, PHA (carbon source), pectin, lignin, cellulose, PLA and Xanthan gum Liang et al. (2014), Bilanovic et al. (2010), Martinez et al. (2014), Liang et al. (2014), Jonglertjunya et al. (2014), Szymańska-Chargot et al. (2017), Di Donatoa et al. (2014), Elain et al. (2016), Tapia-Blácido et al. (2017), Follonier et al. (2014)
Waste from the production of both non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages Molasses, carbonation sludge, bagasse, spent grains, spent coffee grounds Waste from brewery and distillery industries manufactures of coffee and tea PHA Karmee (2018), Obruca et al. (2014), Cruz et al., 2015a, Cruz et al., 2015b