M.A. Pérez-Limiñana^*, M.M. Sánchez-Navarro, M.J. Escoto-Palacios, F. Arán-Aís, C. Orgilés-Barceló

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.4, No.1, pp. 3-8, 2016, DOI:10.7569/JRM.2015.634119

Abstract The tanning i ndustry generates very large quantities of industrial wastes. The advancement of European policy and legislation protecting the environment has prompted the transformation of tannery solid waste materials into valuable co-products, useful to be recycled or employed in other industries. The objective of this work is to obtain gelatine from tannery wastes, in order to reuse it as natural microencapsulating agent in the production of active materials with functional properties. Concretely, this paper focuses on the influence of the extraction temperature on gelatine properties and its microencapsulating ability. An alternative enzymatic pre-treatment to the conventional alkaline one is… More >

Filomena Barreiro, Ana Vera Machado

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.4, No.1, pp. 1-1, 2016, DOI:10.7569/JRM.2016.634101

Abstract a special issue containing 12 papers is presented here.The Guest Editors of this special issue are grateful to Alessandro Gandini, co-editor in-chief of the Journal of Renewable Materials, Linda Mohr, the Journal Editors’ assistant, as well as to the entire journal team for their valuable contributions that made this excellent work possible. Last but not least, our sincere appreciation to the contributing authors for the work performed and to all the reviewers involved, for their critical and con-structive comments on the submitted manuscripts.A special acknowledgement to Martin Scrivener for his constant follow-up and support.We look forward for other special issues… More >