Food Waste to Energy: An Overview of Sustainable Approaches for Food Waste Management and Nutrient Recycling

Table 3

Microorganism cooperation in organic matter degradation [33, 34].

Reaction Type	Microorganism	Active Genera	Product
Fermentation	Hydrolytic bacteria	Bacteroides, Lactobacillus, Propionibacterium, Sphingomonas, Sporobacterium, Megasphaera, Bifidobacterium	Simple sugars, peptides, fatty acids
Acidogenesis	Syntropic bacteria	Ruminococcus, Paenibacillus, Clostridium	Volatile fatty acids
Acetogenesis	Acetogenic bacteria	Desulfovibrio, Aminobacterium, Acidaminococcus	CH3COOH
Methanogenesis	Methanogens (Archaea)	Methanosaeta, Methanolobus, Methanococcoides, Methanohalophilus, Methanosalsus, Methanohalobium, Halomethanococcus, Methanolacinia, Methanogenium, Methanoculleus	CH4