National Society of Environmental Science and Engineering (SNSIM)
Abstract
Being a part of the Mediterranean basin the Aegean Region of Turkey contributes immensely to the Turkish economy with its agro-industrial infrastructure and consequently enormous amounts of agricultural wastes and surpluses are produced annually. Presently, these materials are very rarely reutilized. The fact that agro-industrial wastes contain economically valuable or microbially metabolizable components enable them to be converted to high value added products through biotechnological methods. The objective of this study was to develop a data base and to determine the sources, quantities and qualities, the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of the Region's agro-industrial wastes
