Bioproducts and domestic waste digestion

27 June 2011 0 6K Report

An application of microbial systems is in waste digestion, but I want to combine this with synthesis of bioproducts. Domestic waste to act as cheap carbon source for the microbes. Could someone kindly give me some di rection?

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