This book is a collection of four chapters which review the future prospects of biorefineries. Chapter One is a review of the future of biorefineries from a circular economic perspective. Chapter Two is a prospective analysis of the challenges which biorefineries in Latin America face. Chapter Three reviews the advances and challenges to the process scale up for biorefineries in Latin America. Chapter Four is a spatially explicit assessment of a forestry biorefinery for the recovery of bio-based materials.