A trashed treasure: Lignin could become a large and renewable source of organic compounds for the chemical industry to replace fossil fuel-based chemicals: Lignin could become a large and renewable source of organic compounds for the chemical industry to replace fossil fuel-based chemicals.
Maria Louisa VighPublished in: EMBO reports (2023)
Plant-based industries generate huge amounts of lignin waste that could be converted to useful bioproducts. Efforts to recycle lignin include GM plants, microbial cell factories and "lignin-first" approaches.