Waste to Resources: Unlocking Potential Applications of Agricultural Waste is a comprehensive textbook that explores various types of agricultural waste, their sources, and composition. Growing environmental concerns create a need to deploy sustainable processes within agriculture. This book sheds light on waste management techniques, covering both theory and practice, and advocates for re-framing agricultural waste as a valuable resource. It takes into account the latest research and regulatory considerations to give a well-rounded understanding of the subject. This textbook is an essential resource for upper-level undergraduate students, researchers, and professionals in environmental science and agricultural biology.
The introductory chapters provide an overview of agricultural waste, including crop residues, livestock waste, pesticides, and chemical waste, and describe the environmental implications of these categories. The subsequent chapters delve into waste management techniques such as biogas production, nutrient recovery, recycling, and composting. The final chapter explores the regulatory and policy issues related to sustainable agricultural waste management.
Part 1: Understanding Agricultural and Food Wastes
1. Beyond the harvest: The origins and diversity of crop residues and byproducts
2. Livestock waste: Sources, types and composition
3. Pesticide and chemical waste: Exploring the sources, composition, and characteristics
4. Nutrient, fertilizer, and plastic waste in agriculture sector
5. Food processing waste: understanding the sources, composition, and characteristics
6. Water footprints of global agriculture sector
Part 2: Environmental Impact and Ecological Considerations
7. The ecological footprint of agricultural waste: Pollution and greenhouse gas
8. Emissions from fertile to fragile: Understanding soil degradation and erosion due to agricultural waste
9. Pyrethroids contamination: Understanding the impacts on freshwater invertebrates and fish
10. The ecological toll: Biodiversity loss and habitat degradation caused by agricultural waste
11. The hidden dangers: Agricultural waste and its impact on human health
Part 3: Waste management technologies for waste mitigation
12. Traditional and modern waste management technologies: Challenges and limitations
13. Integrated Waste Management Systems: Holistic Approaches to Waste Management in Agriculture
14. Anaerobic Digestion of Waste for Sustainable Energy Production: Principles, applications, and sustainable challenges
15. Waste-to-energy technologies: Harnessing biogas from agricultural waste
16. Industrial applications of agricultural waste for value added products
17. Nanotechnology and agro-industrial wastes as a sustainable and future approach in agricultural applications
Part 4: Waste valorisation and resource?utilisation
18. Nutrient recovery and recycling: Extracting and reusing nutrients from agricultural waste
19. Transforming waste into worth: Exploring Value-added products from Agricultural waste
20. Agricultural waste as a renewable resource: Biomass and biofuel production
21. Vermicomposting for waste decomposition and soil health improvement: Risk and challenges
22. Residue to rations: Enhancing livestock nutrition with agricultural byproducts
23. Biochar production: Utilizing waste for carbon sequestration and soil improvement
24. Sustainable solutions: Utilizing agricultural waste for bioplastics and biofibers
25. Waste not, mushroom lots: Innovative cultivation methods with agricultural residues
Part 5: Regulatory and Policy Frameworks for Sustainable Waste Management
26. Policies and strategies to promote sustainable agricultural waste management practices
27. Emerging Trends and Future Prospects in Agricultural Waste Management
28. Potential agricultural waste management practices to contribute to a sustainable and circular agricultural system
Dr. Arup Giri is Associate Professor in the Department of Zoology, Baba Mastnath University, India. He obtained his MSc in Zoology from the University of Calcutta and his PhD in Life Sciences from Bharathiar University, India. Dr. Giris research focuses on nutrition and environmental toxicology, and he has participated in several book projects, including Elseviers Designer Poultry Eggs; Exploring Noninvasive Disease Biomarkers with Urinary Omics Analysis; and Waste to Resources.
Sanju Bala Dhull, Ph.D. is presently working as Associate Professor in Department of Food Science and Technology, Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, having more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. Her area of interests includes characterization and modification of biomolecules such as starch, gums etc., edible films, hydrogels, nanoparticles, nanoemulsions and new product development. She has published more than 45 research papers, 5 books and 25 book chapters in books of national and international repute. She presented more than 20 research papers in various national and international conferences. She is life member of Association of Food Scientists and Technologists (India) and Association of Microbiologists of India. She also serves as editorial board member and reviewer of national and international journals.
