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Leany Enid Lugo-Avilés, Martha Laura López-Moreno, Felix R. Roman-Velazquez and Joel Lugo-Rosas
Agricultural soils are degraded worldwide as result of anthropogenic activities; environmental contamination; and excessive use of chemicals, fertilizers, and pesticides. Scientists are concerned about this problem; during the past few years sewage compo...
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Rocio Vaca, Pedro Del Águila, Gustavo Yañez-Ocampo, Jorge A. Lugo and Nadia De la Portilla-López
Erosion significantly decreases the depth of a soil, the nutrients available for plants, the organic matter and, consequently, the productivity of the edaphic environment. Due to the above considerations, the objective of this study was to evaluate, thro...
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Suriyah Akhter, Mohd Aadil Bhat, Abeer Hashem, Elsayed Fathi Abd_Allah, Sirajuddin Ahmed, Weqar Ahmad Siddiqi, Isma Kulsoom and Fahim Un Nisa
The movement of emerging pollutants, particularly antibiotics, from surface water to crops through the process of plant uptake poses a significant public concern related to the agricultural utilization of untreated water and biosolids. It is essential to...
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Aleksandra Ukalska-Jaruga, Grzegorz Siebielec, Sylwia Siebielec and Monika Pecio
The aim of this study was to assess the impact of soil amendments, characterized by different sorption properties, on the effectiveness of trace elements? (Cu, Zn, Pb, Cd, Ni, and Cr) stabilization and bioavailability to earthworms. The study was conduct...
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Bimi Shrestha, Rafael Hernandez, Dhan Lord B. Fortela, Wayne Sharp, Andrei Chistoserdov, Daniel Gang, Emmanuel Revellame, William Holmes and Mark E. Zappi
The rapid increase in the population is expected to result in the approaching of design capacity for many US wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) over the next decade. WWTPs treat both municipal and industrial wastewater influents, resulting in the produc...
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Ioannis Giannakis, Christina Emmanouil and Athanasios Kungolos
Biosolids made from municipal sludge are an attractive solution instead of chemical fertilization. Nevertheless, their effects on the ecosystem should always be considered. In the present study, anaerobically digested sludge was subjected to two leaching...
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Millions of tonnes of leftover biosolids are increasingly stockpiled every year around the globe. Biosolids are a product of the wastewater sludge treatment process. Stockpiles necessitate the use of large areas of increasingly valuable land. Biosolids h...
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Hans Brix
Sludge Treatment Reed Beds (STRBs) are widely used in Northern Europe to dewater and mineralize surplus sludge from activated sludge systems used to treat urban domestic sewage. STRBs are low-technology, energy-efficient, and do not require addition of c...
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Adrian Unc, Joanna Niemi and Michael J. Goss
Discontinuous flows resulting from discrete natural rain events induce temporal and spatial variability in the transport of bacteria from organic waste through soils in which the degree of saturation varies. Transport and continuity of associated pathway...
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