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Factors Associated with Backyard Composting Behavior at the Household Level
Communities in most states are under pressure to reduce the amount of solid waste going into landfills. Many are making efforts to encourage their citizens to practice backyard composting.
Roberts, Roland K. +2 more
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, 1999 Composting processes that are carried out in the open are known to bring about the release of micro-organisms into the atmosphere. Conditions set in waste permits and planning permissions may specify that facility operators must sample for these micro ...
Wheeler, P. +11 more
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Fungal Antimicrobial Resistance: Mechanisms, Drivers, and Global Clinical Burden
ChemFoodChem, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fungal antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing concern for world health caused by an increase in multidrug‐resistant infections, an increase in environmental reservoirs, and the ineffectiveness of current antifungal treatments. Fungal infections continue to be largely excluded from AMR initiatives while causing over 1.6 million deaths ...
Bikash Baral
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AN ANALYSIS OF FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH COMPOSTING BEHAVIOR AT THE HOUSEHOLD LEVEL
Drawing upon telephone survey data, a logit probability analysis was conducted to identify household characteristics as well as social and institutional factors associated with backyard composting of yard and food wastes.
Roberts, Roland K. +2 more
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Composting of organic rice straw towards “Zero Waste Production Management”
, 2011 Rice straw which is nowadays normally concerned as agricultural waste was used in this research as raw material to produce compost. The objectives of this research were to compost organic rice straw, to analyze the nutrient content of compost, and to ...
Ichwan, Nazif
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Transferência tecnológica do projeto de coleta seletiva e compostagem de resíduos orgânicos da UFSC para a UFGD [PDF]
, 2014 TCC (graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Ciências Agrárias. Curso de Agronomia.A compostagem em leiras estáticas com aeração natural é um sistema empregado desde 1994 na UFSC, o qual visa à reciclagem integral de determinadas ...
Meier Elias, Victor Oziel
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The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.Abstract The objective of this work is to demonstrate that the inclusion of an up‐flow anaerobic sludge bed (UASB reactor) within an industrial wastewater treatment plant reduces the plant's investment and operating costs compared to a system based solely on conventional complete‐mix activated sludge (CMAS), operating under the same design principles ...
Juan Manuel Morgan‐Sagastume +1 more
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Food Waste and Composting: Practices, Meanings, and Competencies [PDF]
Food wastage comprises an estimated one-third of total food production, contributing up to 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. In the UK, the average person wastes approximately 100 kg of food each year, with households responsible for around 60% of ...
Elhoushy, S
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The extant carbon neutrality (CN) literature largely offers macro‐ or meso‐level analyses, providing limited insights into implementation experiences that could inform granular policymaking and industry strategies. To address this gap, we examine the lived CN experiences of firms in the transportation, energy, manufacturing, and construction ...
Adeel Luqman +4 more
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Composting of oil palm biomass: Fourier transform-infrared and thermogravimetry analyses [PDF]
, 2015 This study investigates the effects of composting conditions on the chemical characteristics of compost from oil palm biomass. Three samples each of empty fruit bunches (EFB), palm oil mill effluent (POME) and compost were collected from three compost ...
Puah, Chiew Wei +4 more
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