**7. Conclusions**

The use of lignocellulosic waste is an alternative to generate environmentally friendly products with high added value. There is a variety of methods to modify the surface of cellulose fibers both to obtain biofuels and to improve their compatibility with a polymeric matrix and in this way, develop biocomposites with high mechanical performance to be used mainly in the automotive and packaging sectors. Likewise, from the chemical treatment waste, the black liquor is generated, and it can be reused for the generation of high added-value compounds. On the other hand, lignocellulosic residues have had a high growth potential in the market in a wide variety of applications; however, the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the use of some of these products mainly in medical applications and in the packaging industry.

#### **Acknowledgements**

We want to thank to Alejandro Carreón for kind suggestions in the early version of this manuscript. The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of CONACYT through project CB A1-31735.

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Elizabeth Quintana Rodríguez1

León, Guanajuato, México

José Nicacio González Cervantes1

María Alejandra Rivera Trasgallo1

adriana.espinoza@ciqa.edu.mx

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*Getting Environmentally Friendly and High Added-Value Products from Lignocellulosic Waste*

, Domancar Orona Tamayo1

1 Center for Applied Innovation in Competitive Technologies (CIATEC),

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2 Center for Research in Applied Chemistry (CIQA), Saltillo, Coahuila, México

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, Flora Itzel Beltrán Ramirez1

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and Adriana Berenice Espinoza Martínez2

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*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.93645*
