Brody A. Frost, E. Johan Foster*
Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.8, No.2, pp. 187-203, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2020.07940
Abstract As the world's population exponentially grows, so does the need for the
production of food, with cereal production growing annually from an estimated
1.0 billion to 2.5 billion tons within the last few decades. This rapid growth in
food production results in an ever increasing amount of agricultural wastes, of
which already occupies nearly 50% of the total landfill area. For example, is
the billions of dry tons of cellulose-containing spent coffee grounds disposed in
landfills annually. This paper seeks to provide a method for isolating cellulose
nanocrystals (CNCs) from spent coffee grounds, in order to recycle and utilize
the… More >
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