Saving the Environment by Nanotechnology and Waste Raw Materials: Use of Chitin Nanofibrils by EU research projects

Abstract

While hazardous waste may affect the health, its prevention and recycling help address global climate change by decreasing the amount of pollution and saving energy. The rationale and intelligent use of industrial byproducts from fishery processing and plant biomass towards the production of durable components, easy to reuse, remanufacture, or recycle is becoming a must for our society to save the integrity and biodiversity of our planet. The use of chitin nanofibrils and other natural polymers to produce innovative goods seems to go in this direction by some EU research projects described in this short communication.