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The aim of this work was the valorisation of the heavy residual fraction of Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT) plants fed with unsorted Municipal Solid Waste. This product contains a significant amount of glass. It was found that the glass content in this product varies from plant to plant. Minimum and maximum values of 33 and 67% were...

Treatment facilities or MBT plants, are waste management facilities designed to treat and process municipal solid waste (MSW) or mixed waste. MBT plants combine mechanical and biological processes to reduce the volume of waste landfilled and also reduce the environmental impact of waste.

In Portugal, as in many countries in Europe, Most of the undifferentiated urban solid waste is taken to biological mechanical treatment facilities, where there is, depending on the configuration of the facility, a sorting to separate packaging waste from organic waste, however some packaging waste, such as glass, breaks easily and ends up going...

The population growth directly impacts the livestock, which increase the demand for pro-tein source to produce animal food besides human food. Up today soy is the main source of protein in our global food supply. However, the deviation of the soy production to pro-duce animal food can result in an unsustainable production and consumption, which...

The increasing of worldwide population has a strong impact not only in the consumption of the earth resources but also in the consequent increase in the production of waste and the increasingly demand for space for agricultural and livestock purposes. It is well known that the increasing of population associated to the country development requires...

Biodiesel produced by residual feedstock, such as waste cooking oil, is, indeed one of the strategies to reduce production costs, valorize wastes and contribute for a faster decarbonization in transportation sector, plus, it does not compete with food security. However, the high sulfur content in these residual feedstocks is becoming an enormous...

Giving high school students the opportunity to be engineering students in the summer, and showing the world of research in the area of ​​biofuel production, will not only attract students to the institution in question, but will also impart knowledge on circular economy, experiments laboratories, waste recovery, biofuel production and...