Food processing industry uses a large volume of fresh water to deliver safe food for humanity. The
resulting wastewater, a stream rich in organic natural compounds, is usually disposed in public sewers or
using different suboptimal solutions. The need for more sustainable solutions, in a circular
economy perspective, fosters the development of new processes able to recover valuable compounds,
water included, closing the loop. The workshop will present how to confront with alkaloids containing food wastewater. A far reaching concept in which alkaloids are isolated and converted
into building blocks of value for pharmaceutical and chemical industries, compensating for water
detoxification costs will be debated. Lupanine is used as a particular example to illustrate this concept, and
the preliminary results from the Biorg4WasteWaterVal+ project (H2020 Water works 2014) will be presented. Delegates from the Department of Environment and the Wastewater treatment plant of Limassol will present the national strategy and current facilities for wastewater treatment in Cyprus.

Invitation