inappropriate waste management is considered as an important factor for attracting wild animals to the inhabited area. this leads to food conditioning in some wild species, which changes their feeding behavior and food habits. usually this trend reduces the fear of wild species and leads to conflict between wild species and human. we sampled five landfill sites of villages and small towns in wh...

an increase in heavy metal pollution in the soils of arak due to industrialization and urbanization has become an environmental problem. the region hosts several industrial facilities which are the main source for hazardous wastes which include electric, metal, automotive supply industry, food, machinery, and chemicals. soil samples were collected from these industrial areas in the central and ...

Vermicomposts have been shown to promote the germination, growth, and yields of plants. This paper aims to demonstrate the effects of vermicomposts produced from three types of wastes on growth and flowering of petunias which are an important U.S. flowering crop. Vermicomposts, produced commercially from cattle manure, food wastes and paper wastes, were substituted at a range of different conce...

Pleurotus ostreatus (P. ostreatus) is considered a high-quality food, rich in proteins and bioactive compounds important for maintaining human health. Lately, commonly used substrate oyster mushroom cultivation—wheat straw, more often replaced by alternative cellulose substrates originated from the agricultural food industry. Utilization of wastes cultivation has its added value: sustainable wa...

Developing commercial mushroom and vegetable production in an integrated food-to-waste-to-food biosystem VegWaMus CirCrop aims to develop into biosystem. The objective is close the loop between food waste-based biogas reuse of output after anaerobic digestion. Integrated cultivation interesting from a circular approach; organic wastes are utilised for energy crop closed system.

BACKGROUND Co-fermentation is an attractive technology for improving volatile fatty acids (VFAs) production by treatment of solid organic wastes. However, it remains unclear how the composition of different organic matters in solid waste influences the VFAs distribution, microbial community structure, and metabolic pathway during acidogenic co-fermentation. In this study, different organic wast...

In recent years, increasing in the level of public health consciousness has led to a drastic decrease in the use of synthetic food preservatives. Therefore, there has been a growing demand for novel antimicrobials. Apart from that, finding low cost sources has been always an important issue for food marketers. The present study was designed to investigate in-vitro antibacterial activities of gr...

To produce sufficient food for the expanding global population, natural resources are constantly being overused, and at same time, wastes produced an ever-increasing rate [...]