Home and vermicomposting as sustainable options for biowaste management

Vermicomposting and anaerobic digestion – viable alternative options for terrestrial weed management – A review

The management of terrestrial weed is of great concern for the scientific community as these weeds cause adverse effect in different ecosystems like forest, agriculture and urban. The widespread of these weeds by their adaptive capability and morphological advancement is difficult to control. Parthenium hysterophorous, Lantana camara, Saccharum spontaneum, Ageratum conyzoides are the weeds that...

Technical Options for Sustainable Land and Water Management

Enhancing sustainable biowaste management in the UK: the role of the commercial and community composting sectors

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The management of household biowaste in the UK has undergone significant changes during the last decade. Legislation and policy have prom...

Scenario analysis and management options for sustainable river basin management: Application of the Elbe DSS

We developed a decision support system (DSS) for sustainable river basin management in the German Elbe catchment (w100,000 km2), called Elbe-DSS. The system integrates georeferenced simulation models and related data sets with a user friendly interface and includes a library function. Design and content of the DSS have been developed in close cooperation with end users and stakeholders. The use...

Management of Kitchen Waste Material through Vermicomposting

India produces around 3000 million tones of organic waste annually. This huge volume of waste(s) comes from agriculture, urban and industrial sources and also from domestic activities. Utilization of this waste material for productivity process is important for both economical and environmental reasons. In the present study an effort has been made to asses the efficacy of E. foetida (red tiger ...