Como respuesta al aumento de población, asentamientos en zonas urbanas y cambios en los patrones de consumo, la generación de residuos sólidos ha aumentado de manera exponencial. El Programa Basura Cero es una estrategia de gestión que surge como respuesta a esta problemática y que busca mitigar los impactos negativos...
Coffee pulp (CP) is the main solid by-product obtained from wet processing of coffee cherries and it represents about 40% of fresh weight of coffee fruits. Annual production of CP in Mexico is over 400 000 tonnes, and traditional applications only use a fraction of this by-product. Thus, it is...
The emerging organic contaminants (EOCs) comprise a broad set of compounds that include metabolites and transformation products, present in the environment in amounts of ng to mg. Within the EOCs, there are drugs, personal care products, pesticides, etc. More than half of the antibiotics produced worldwide are beta-lactams and many...
Arsenic (As) is a metalloid highly toxic and widely distributed in the ground. For that reason, nowadays there are several technologies to clean As-polluted soils. One of these is phytoremediation, which use tolerant plant and its associated microorganisms (MOs), which can modify the ability of plant to bioaccumulate toxic elements...
El género Mimosa L. pertenece a la familia Leguminosae, cuenta con ca. 530 especies, distribuidas en América (90%), África, incluyendo Madagascar y Asia (10%), con algunas especies introducidas en Australia. En México, el género está representado por ca. 110 especies. El estudio de la morfología de los granos de polen...
