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Energy plays a critical role in any country’s economic growth. In the fast-growing world, energy is a necessary need for running all the electronic appliances for our hassle-free lifestyle. It may be addressed by making careful decisions about creating new energy resources and reducing energy waste. If the solid waste is segregated appropriately and goes for recycling or repurposing; then, we can produce plastic to fuel, wet waste to biogas, and many other recyclable products. So, by choice of consumers, a resource/material becomes waste rather than a valuable product from the resources. Also, garbage burning, stable burning, and emissions from vehicles and industries led to GHG emissions and therefore global warming. Due to air pollution, every year, there is the death of more than a billion people all over the globe. Fossil fuels are limited resources (nonrenewable) to produce energy, and it also causes the emission of air pollutants. Along with established hydroelectricity, there are solar, wind, and biomass energies available in the renewable energy market. In COP26 and India’s budget 2022, the production and adoption of renewable energy were given utmost importance to achieve net-zero emission by 2070. In this article, the need and recent advancement of renewable energy have been discussed along with the production of waste to clean energy.
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Ghosh, A. (2022). Importance of Waste to Wealth and Renewable Energy Toward Sustainable Development. In: Shanker, U., Hussain, C.M., Rani, M. (eds) Handbook of Green and Sustainable Nanotechnology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69023-6_92-1
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