Still, most cereal straw is used for burning, heating, or discarding (Cao et al., 2016a), resulting in a massive waste of resources and environmental pollution. China, one of the largest producers of cereal straw globally, approximately produces 653 million tonnes of crop straw annually, with...
Consequently, reuse and recycling of these byproducts/wastes are very limited, and the vast majority is still disposed inappropriately by dumping, landfilling, and burning (Wilson et al. 2015; Kaza et al. 2018); their quantities are steadily increasing every year. It is suggested that a ...