Section I: Smart techniques for waste management.- 1.Waste pollution and management: Current challenges and future perspectives.- 2. Potential of Smart sensors and smart waste bins in smart waste management.- 3. Robotics in waste management: A smart technique to segregate, recycle, and recover electronic waste.- 4.
Potential of Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology in smart waste management.- 5. Role of machine learning and artificial intelligence in smart waste management.- 6. Application of Remote sensing and GIS in effective waste management.- Section II: Ecotechnological approaches for sustainable waste management.- 7. Sustainable management of food waste by composting.
- 8. Vermitechnology: A green technology to manage and recover nutrients from municipal waste.- 9. Advanced biotechnological approaches for the management of plastic waste.- 10. Production of green energy from agricultural waste using advanced thermochemical and biological approaches: a step towards circular economy.- 11. Safe disposal and utilization of fly-ash from municipal waste incinerators for better environmental management.
- 12. Biohydrogen production from sewage sludge: Mechanistic insights and factors involved.- Section III: Smart biotechnologies for wastewater management.- 13. Potential of Artificial intelligence in monitoring and predicting effluent quality.- 14. Membrane Bioreactors: A highly advanced biotechnological approach to manage emerging contaminants from industrial wastewater.- 15.
Aquatic macrophytes: Role as biomarkers in water pollution detection and as potential agents for removing contaminants from wastewater environments.- 16. Recent advances in enhanced biological nitrogen and phosphorus removal from wastewater.- 17. Potential of nano-biotechnology in remediation of emerging toxicants from wastewater.- 18. Microbial engineering and their potential in remediation of heavy metals from wastewater: Mechanism and factors involved.- 19.
Microalgae: A novel low-cost biotechnological approach in detoxification and remediation of radioactive waste from wastewater.- 20. Nano-plastics in wastewater: Monitoring, ecotoxicity and remediation.- 21. Advanced biotechnological approaches for the biodegradation and detoxification of dyes from textile industrial effluents.- 22. Harmful pathogens and pharmaceutical residues: Ecotoxicity and management from wastewater.- 23.
Microbial electrolysis: An emerging biotechnology for energy production and wastewater treatment.