Terpenoids are important ingredients in perfumery, and terpene residues have shown potential as new sources of these compounds. This study aimed to apply gas extraction with liquefied petroleum gas (butane/propane) as a clean technology to extract terpenes from agroindustrial and forest wastes. The extracts obtained were characterized by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), and compared to extracts obtained using traditional organic solvent extraction (hexane and dichloromethane:n-pentane). The oil extraction yields were 5.36% for the orange waste, 2.1% for the apple pomace, 2.32% for the pine needle and 0.6% for the pine wood shavings. The extract obtained using this new method on orange waste contained the highest concentration of limonene (95.32 g/100 g of extract), alpha-pinene (0.40) and beta-pinene (0.23) among all of the solvents as well as the largest extracted amount (0.051 g/g of dry substrate). Based on the GC-MS analyses, the LPG extraction displayed less decomposition or modification of the compounds. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.