Insights into hydrophobic waste valorization for the production of value‐added oleochemicals

Current trends in waste valorization

“…Thus, according to the authors, carbon metabolism, including fatty acid biosynthesis and the TCA cycle, was significantly improved at 10% CO 2 , making Scenedesmus obliquus HTB1 a suitable choice for absorbing CO 2 from flue gases. Vyas et al (2022) offered clear insights into hydrophobic waste valorization for the synthesis of oleochemicals with added value and provided the following recommendations: (i) efficient development of downstream processing is a crucial aspect of commercializing oleochemicals, (ii) marine and salt-tolerant microorganisms such as thraustochytrids have gained significant attention as promising multi-product single-cell biorefineries, and these biocatalysts should be tested on a large scale, (iii) hydrophobic wastes (e.g. waste cooking oils) should be treated properly and used to produce valueadded products and realize circular bioeconomy and (iv) understanding the metabolic pathways and identifying the major enzymes and regulatory factors involved in the valorization of wastes requires an omics-based approach (transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics).…”