Challenge and Research Trends in Pyrolysis for Waste Raw Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Changes in waste legislation around the world, seeks to avoid landfilling and makes incineration difficult. This generates a pressing need for technologies that favor the use and transformation of waste into new products related with circular economy. The transformation of waste materials by pyrolysis is one of the most promising technologies. This technology allows the generation of new products that may have new uses or that can be used for chemical recycling. This special issue is dedicated to the transformation of waste into new products or secondary raw material, through pyrolysis, and to the efficacy and subsequent application of these new products. The transformation of plastics, tires, residual biomass, electronic waste, through pyrolysis can be a mechanism by which these wastes are reincorporated into the system. There is increasing evidence of the role of Biochar as a permanent carbon store and fertilizer, of the use of pyrolysis liquid as green nafta or of the use of Wood vinegar as herbicide, fertilizer or as a biostimulant. In this issue we want to address all these issues and those related to the economic and environmental viability and effectiveness of these processes.

Dr. Juan Luis Aguirre
Topic Editor