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Create Agricultural Waste Elimination

Develop agricultural systems that eliminate all waste by converting every agricultural byproduct into useful materials or energy. Agricultural waste elimination would design farming systems where waste from one process becomes input for another, achieving complete material utilization in agriculture. Current agriculture generates enormous amounts of waste including crop residues, animal waste, and processing byproducts that often create environmental problems. The challenge involves developing agricultural processes that have no waste outputs, creating networks of agricultural processes that use each other's byproducts, and designing technologies that can convert any agricultural waste into useful products. Applications include farms that use all crop residues productively, agricultural systems that convert animal waste into energy and fertilizer, and agricultural processing that produces zero waste. Success would eliminate agricultural pollution, maximize agricultural resource utilization, and create sustainable agricultural systems that enhance rather than degrade the environment.

Engineering, Core Engineering, Agricultural Engineering