Municipal solid waste (MSW) continues to be a growing problem in most parts of the world It is increasing in quantity and complexity as the number and variety of consumer products increases and leads to ever more complex wastes. The amount of MSW generated in the US in 1988 was estimated ...
A household survey on perceptions and practices of solid waste management was conducted with 83 homes in the village and revealed that 81.5% were ready to sort organic wastes. The findings were discussed in a town meeting and the decision was made to train community members on composting ...
An aerobic biodegradation conceptual model is presented here based on the principle that solids hydrolysis is the rate-limiting step during solid waste composting. The mineralizable solid carbon of each solid waste component was assumed to comprise the readily, the moderately and the slowly (or ...
Metropolitan cities of India generated about 64.8 million tonnes (Mt) of city refuse during 2010. This waste material had a potential to prepare 9.1 Mt of compost. The production of municipal solid...doi:10.1007/978-981-10-5795-3_33A. B. SinghM. C. Manna...
Composting in Qatar is mainly done at the Domestic Solid Waste Management Centre (DSWMC) in Mesaieed, which houses the largest composting facility in the country and one of the largest in the world. The waste that enters the plant initially goes through anaerobic digestion, which produces biogas...
Municipal solid waste (MSW) generation and management in Cuba was studied with a view to integrating composting of the organic fractions of MSW into the system. Composting is already included as part of the environmental strategy of the country as an appropriate waste management solution. However,...
Nair, M. ManikantanSreekumar, J.Taylor & Francis GroupCommunications in Soil Science and Plant AnalysisChithra, S., Susan John, K., Manikantan Nair, M. and Sreekumar, J. 2017. Management of cassava starch factory solid waste (thippi) through composting to a...
Biowaste Humification AT4 Organic recycling Compost stability MBT plant 1. Introduction Mechanical-biological treatment (MBT) installations are now widely used in the management of residual municipal solid waste (rMSW) and separately collected waste materials. The mechanical part of MBT plants is design...
In California, the largest food producing state of the U.S., organic waste represents approximately 34% of total solid waste disposal, with discarded food making up 44% of the organic matter contribution21. Most of the 5.3 MMT of food waste generated in California is landfilled, with the re...
Effects of biochar amendment on bacterial and fungal diversity for co-composting of gelatin industry sludge mixed with organic fraction of municipal solid waste Bioresource Technology, 246 (2017), pp. 214-223 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Bao, 2008 S D Bao Soil and Agricultural...