Despite being marketed as environmentally benign alternatives for conventional synthetic polymers, biodegradable plastics inevitably generate large amounts of microplastics, posing currently overlooked yet potentially significant environmental risks. This study selected polylactic acid microplastics (PLA-MPs) as model...
Yanying He, Xianli Yang, Ying-Xin Jin et al.· Bioresource Technology· 0 citations
Medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs) offer a sustainable route for valorizing waste-activated sludge (WAS) into higher-value products, yet their bioproduction is constrained by the rigid extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) barrier and inefficient chain elongation (CE). Here, we develop a synergistic pretreatment stra...
Ya Ji, Xiao-Feng Luo, Qing-Yu Zhao et al.· ACS ES&T Engineering· 0 citations
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is widely used for organic waste stabilization and bio-energy recovery, but its performance is often constrained by process instability, slow syntrophic metabolism, and sensitivity to acidification, ammonia, organic overloading, and inhibitory contaminants. Biochar has emerged as a promising st...