NP‐bioTech: a circular economy approach to catalyst‐based biostabilization of citrus processing waste

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Abstract BACKGROUND Biowaste accounts for about 40% of total waste. Food‐industry waste is one major biowaste stream. The available technological approaches to biowaste treatment are expensive, not circular, unsustainable, and they require pre‐treatments such as dehydration, extraction of inhibitors, pH correction, or the addition of other organic matrices. The NP‐bioTech process uses a biocatalyst adsorbed onto an inert material enabling accelerated fermentation of critical biomass without pre‐treatments, transforming it into biostabilized and pasteurized material, and converting waste into new usable products rapidly. Biocatalysts consist of naturally fortified selections of microbial colonies, enzymes, and fungi that are resistant to the action of d‐limonene and other fermentation inhib