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José L. S. Pereira, Telma Costa, Vitor Figueiredo, Francisco Marques, Adelaide Perdigão, Isabel Brás, Maria E. F. Silva and Dulcineia F. Wessel
Composting is one of the best organic waste management techniques, with zero waste; however, it generates environmental impacts. The objective of this study was to evaluate the emission of NH3, N2O, CO2, and CH4 from the composting of olive, elderberry, ...
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Urte Stulpinaite, Vita Tilvikiene and Modupe Olufemi Doyeni
Improving soil health across agroecosystems has continued to receive attention around the globe, with an emphasis on sustainable organic inputs from agricultural practice. It is well known that different organic materials, such as composts, manure and ce...
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Mariarosaria Sicignano, Luisa del Piano, Luigi Morra, Tommaso Enotrio, Salvatore Baiano, Antonio Salluzzo, Antonio Merola and Francesco Raimo
The use of peat, the standard substrate used for soilless cultivation of horticultural crops, is becoming of increasing concern as peat is a non-renewable resource and its extraction can degrade wetland ecosystems, creating a strong environmental impact....
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Ralf Gottschall, Maria Thelen-Jüngling, Martin Kranert and Bertram Kehres
In this study, the suitability of biowaste and green waste composts in organic farming is presented based on quality assurance data of approximately 21,000 compost analyses from 2015 to 2020. The evaluation of compost suitability was based on both the le...
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Yao-Tsung Chang, Chia-Hsing Lee, Chi-Ying Hsieh, Ting-Chien Chen and Shih-Hao Jien
Uncertainty remains over composting time and maturity degree for compost production. The objectives of this study were to establish maturity indicators for composting based on spectral and chemical components and to provide a reference for future compost...
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Agnieszka Medynska-Juraszek and Anna Szczepanska
Agricultural soils are considered as ?hot-spots? of plastic particles; however, due to a lack of standardized method of microplastic determination in soils, as well as no legal regulations requiring the monitoring of the soil environment in the context o...
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Victor Kavvadias, Zacharias Ioannou, Evangelia Vavoulidou and Christos Paschalidis
The proper management of treated agricultural wastes (e.g., composts) contributes to the protection of water and soil quality by reducing the use of chemical fertilizers, lowering leachate, and protecting renewable and nonrenewable resources. Natural zeo...
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Kamalya Karamova, Natalia Danilova, Svetlana Selivanovskaya and Polina Galitskaya
One way to increase yields in agriculture using organic alternative methods is the introduction of manure-based composts into the soil. However, the use of such composts carries a risk of soil contamination with antibiotic resistance genes (ARG) from the...
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Daniela V. Borisova, Gergana S. Kostadinova, Georgi S. Petkov, Diyana M. Dermendzhieva and Georgi G. Beev
Municipal green waste (MGW) has significantly increased with the development of urban green areas, and its utilization by composting is a good alternative to solve the problem. This paper presents the results from the quality assessment of two industrial...
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Etelvino Henrique Novotny, Fabiano de Carvalho Balieiro, Ruben Auccaise, Vinícius de Melo Benites and Heitor Luiz da Costa Coutinho
Seeking to evaluate the hypothesis that biochar optimises the composting and vermicomposting processes as well as their product quality, we carried out field and greenhouse experiments. Four grass clipping composting treatments (only grass, grass + singl...
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