Recycling and recovery of critical resources from anthropogenic waste is a priority goal, that can be promoted by green chemistry principles. In this frame, I devote great attention to the zero waste strategy, with the aim of reducing the amount of waste materials that are landfilled by promoting overall responsible materials management. In this frame, my research activities concern raw materials recovery (for example phosphorous from biomass ash, metals from spent lithium-ion batteries, and silica) from waste. 

See our Advance Article paper published on Green Chemistry about a new breakthrough in the P recovery from sewage sludge ash by thermochemical processes, cited by the European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform (ESPP)

I have called a chemistry approach that want to link Green Chemistry and Remediation “Azure Chemistry”: the goal is to restore or reconstruct the ecosystems by sustainable solutions in terms of energy, materials and emissions. Azure Chemistry concerns, for example, carbon dioxide sequestration, PM pollution reduction, waste minimisation, and energy neutrality. It requires low-energy paths, manufacturing and technologies reducing the use of non- renewable resources, and in which wastes and by-products are employed. Overall, Azure Chemistry approach must minimize the global impact of the remediation processes. Indeed, literature re- ports several examples of declared low-cost materials, synthesised for instance starting from wastes and by-products. In this frame we have developed the first sustainable material designed for air particulate matter (PM) capture.