6. Sustainable materials

The concept of sustainability arises in 1987, when the World Commission on Environment and Development from the United Nations published a report titled "Our common future" [37], that is focused on the idea of sustainability or sustainable development.

Sustainability is a process that aims to find a balance between the environment and the use of natural resources. Humanity has degraded natural resources in such a way that currently it is necessary to conscientiously procure and plan its consumption to guarantee the existence to future generations.

That is why the use of innovative alternatives for the development of materials allows us to offer better conditions for the care of the environment. Therefore, if a strategy is generated to collect, characterize, and even take advantage of waste materials that currently contribute to the contamination of the environment, in the future, people tend to think of integral use of consumption products. It represents a change in how our society thinks about the use of natural resources and environmental protection.

This is the case of agroindustrial waste, since they have a physicochemical composition that can be used for different purposes, both for the recovery of different raw materials and for their transformation into sustainable materials useful to reduce water pollution.
