Alternative biotechnological solutions for paper and mill plants solid wastes reusing

Abstract

the waste deposition law (1999/31/EC Directive 95/2005 MEWM Order) prohibits land filing with pulp and paper industry solid wastes with organic content and imposes their end treatment. This fact leads to the necessity of finding new uses for residual materials that can be re-used. the paper is a brief review of recent literature on the possibilities of advanced biotechnological solutions to produce alternative energy sources as methane, hydrogen, ethanol and valuable organic products as acetic acid, lactic acid, from pulp and paper solid wastes. the paper also includes the preliminary experimental results obtained for biogas production from paper and mill organic sludge in combination with fermented municipal sludge and cattle manure as inoculum.