Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) has enacted a food waste recycling policy since 2003 as an alternative of landfill and incineration for the final disposal of municipal solid waste. Recycled food waste is currently seen as a valuable material, especially when appropriate technology is developed. This paper conducts a cost/benefit analysis based on six cases of food waste c...

A greenhouse experiment was conducted in Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, University Sciences, Gandhi Krishi Vignana Kendra, Bangalore to study the effects segregated unsegregated urban solid waste drum compost on plant height, number leaves, ear head weight, length, 1000 grain yield straw finger millet (Eleusine coracana L.) during kharif-2015. The results revealed that u...

Sewage sludge is an important contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the carbon budget of organic solid waste treatment and disposal. In this case study, total GHG emissions from an auto-control sludge compost system, including direct and indirect emissions and replaceable reduction due to sludge compost being reused as fertilizer, were quantified. The results indicated that no metha...

Combining the human waste with municipal would pave way to much needed solid management strategy in urban areas. The co-compost produced out of this can be used successfully for crop production. objective study is detect benefits and constraints faced by farmers applying field. 50 as a sample developed Rural Development Organization (RDO), coonoor were taken study. To examine objectives, well-s...

determination of physical properties of municipal waste compost is necessary to obtain the parameters related to designing and constructing a suitable pelleting machine for producing compost pellets. the purpose of this study is determining some physical properties such as; bulk density, coefficient of friction, porosity, angle of repose for compost and density and expansion for compost pellets...

Thermal properties of compost bulking materials affect temperature and biodegradation during the composting process. Well determined thermal properties of compost feedstocks will therefore contribute to practical thermodynamic approaches. Thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, and volumetric heat capacity of 12 compost bulking materials were determined in this study. Thermal properties were...

This paper reviews the sources, bioavailability and fate of heavy metals and organic contaminants in compost manure and in soils of which the manure is applied. The toxicity of heavy metals and organic compounds in soil of which would have come from applied compost is also discussed. Type of materials, their background and where collected for use in composting contribute to the sources of heavy...