Making Cardboard and Paper Recycling More Sustainable: Recycled Paper Sludge For Energy Production and Water-Treatment Applications

Rising socioeconomic level and increasing popularity of e-commerce have dramatically increased the use of cardboard packaging materials, and consequent related recycling and wastes. Large amounts of sludge (up to 40% of input mass) is formed through the recycling process, with sludge solids that are...

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Published inWaste and biomass valorization Vol. 12; no. 3; pp. 1599 - 1608
Main Authors Peretz, Roi, Mamane, Hadas, Wissotzky, Eli, Sterenzon, Elizaveta, Gerchman, Yoram
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.03.2021
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Cardboard
Cellulose
Cellulose fibers
Electronic commerce
Engineering
Environment
Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology
Ethanol
Fermentation
Industrial Pollution Prevention
Landfills
Original Paper
Ozonation
Packaging materials
Paper recycling
Pretreatment
Recycled materials
Recycling
Renewable and Green Energy
Sludge
Sludge solids
Socioeconomic factors
Sorbents
Sugar
Sustainability
Textile industry wastewaters
Waste disposal sites
Waste Management/Waste Technology
Wastewater
Water treatment
Yeasts
Water treatment
Circular economy
Textile dye removal
Ethanol
Cardboard and paper recycling
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Summary:Rising socioeconomic level and increasing popularity of e-commerce have dramatically increased the use of cardboard packaging materials, and consequent related recycling and wastes. Large amounts of sludge (up to 40% of input mass) is formed through the recycling process, with sludge solids that are very rich in cellulose fibers (~ 75% w/w). To date this sludge is mostly disposed in landfills, resulting in added economic and environmental costs to the recycling process. Short ozonation pretreatment of RPS resulted in enzymatic release of ~ 34% of the cellulosic fraction of the sludge as sugar, and fermentation of these sugars by yeasts resulted in production of ~ 15 g/L ethanol. The solid remnants, were used as a bio-sorbent, efficiently removing dyes from textile wastewater. Recycled paper sludge waste was thus a good source for both energy and water-treatment applications, increasing sustainability and circular economy in the paper and cardboard recycling industry.
ISSN:1877-2641
1877-265X
DOI:10.1007/s12649-020-01117-y