{"id":119149,"date":"2024-01-30T02:42:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T07:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/?p=119149"},"modified":"2024-01-30T02:42:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T07:42:29","slug":"fruit-peel-waste-to-purify-contaminated-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/fruit-peel-waste-to-purify-contaminated-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit Peel Waste to Purify Contaminated Water"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Sakshi Kabra Malpani, <\/span>Publishing Associate: Researcher and Writer <\/span>at Save the Water\u2122 | January 30, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n Fruit peel waste, a food industry byproduct, recently gained attention as a potential eco-friendly and cost-effective material for water purification. Fruit peel waste makes approximately 15 to 60% of the 25 to 57 million tons of fruit waste generated worldwide per year. Global concerns like water scarcity and pollution require innovative and sustainable solutions using similarly overlooked resources.<\/span><\/p>\n Water pollution is a growing environmental challenge. It affects both developed and developing nations. <\/span>Fruit peel waste has shown remarkable adsorption potential for various water pollutants, including heavy metals, toxic dyes, and organic contaminants. Since they\u2019re biological materials, they also act as biosorbents. They can treat polluted water in a few ways:<\/span><\/p>\n Fruit peels are residues left after making, processing, and eating fruits. They\u2019re extremely rich in bioactive compounds such as <\/span>pectin, cellulose, polyphenols, tannins, and essential oils<\/span><\/a>. However, different fruit peels have different compositions and properties. Fruit peels are generally disposed of using two methods:<\/span><\/p>\n Fruit juice industries cause most fruit peel waste. These include peels from citrus fruits, watermelons, apples, bananas, pineapples, and many more. More work must be done to encourage the use of fruit peel waste as water filters rather than just disposing of them.<\/span><\/p>\n Fruit peel waste promises to be an effective material for water purification. It offers sustainable solutions to water pollution challenges:<\/span><\/p>\n By Sakshi Kabra Malpani, Publishing Associate: Researcher and Writer at Save the Water\u2122 | January 30, 2024…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12894,"featured_media":119150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,61],"tags":[179,226,547,576],"yst_prominent_words":[704,1092,612,1502,3446],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119149"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119154,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119149\/revisions\/119154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119149"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=119149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Water Purification Using Fruit Peel Waste<\/span><\/h2>\n
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What Exactly are Fruit Peel Wastes?<\/span><\/h2>\n
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What Can You do?<\/span><\/h2>\n
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