Biomedical Letters

Strategies used to treat waste material for energy production on sustainable basis

Ihtesham Arshad 1, Ramish Raza 1, Mehmood Ul Hussan 1, Hamza Rashid 3, Rakhshanda Mushtaq 1, Momina Hussain 1, Naila Mukhtar 2, Muhammad Sajid 1*

1 Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Okara, Okara, Pakistan

2 Department of Botany, University of Okara, Okara, Pakistan

3 Department of Entomology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad Sub-campus, Depalpur, Okara, Pakistan

Abstract

In the developing world, traditional forms of energy are rapidly eradicated, and contribute freely to global concerns such as waste exposure and dangerous deviations in an environment. So, it is required to develop and used renewable or humorous energy resources for future. Every month, a huge amount of waste is generated and becomes the part of landfill or sent to less developed areas, and sometimes left untreated. It has significant environmental consequences for biological systems, and human well-being. Due to this, numerous new waste disposal plants have emerged and developed to generate energy from garbage dumps. Large amount of trash created each day for landfills causes numerous critical ecological effects. Various new approaches are accessible for changing waste materials into energy sources, going from exceptionally straightforward frameworks of discarding waste to more perplexing advancements fit. Waste can be converted into energy by using three possible strategies such as thermochemical, biochemical, and chemical changes. This article explores the impact of waste on environment, and how waste can be used to generate energy.