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Vermicomposting biosolids and organic wastes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Most biosolids produced at wastewater treatment plants in New Zealand, are currently put into landfills, were they can generate methane and produce leachate.
Longhurst, Robert David
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Feasibility Study: Vermicomposting at Boise State University

open access: yes, 2010
The premise of our research is to analyze the feasibility of a closed-loop waste process on Boise State University campus, in which the food-waste that Boise State University dining services produce can be used as fertilizer on Boise State grounds.
Sievers, Scott   +2 more
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Fate of micropollutants during vermicomposting

open access: yes
Vermicomposting is recently becoming a rather popular environmentally friendly technique for stabilizing biowaste, including sewage sludge. There is an effort to utilize the sewage sludge as fertilizer on agricultural land.
Nehasilová, Alena
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Vermicomposting effects on food waste and soil quality

open access: yes, 2017
Vermicomposting uses earthworms to facilitate food waste decomposition to yield organic fertilizer. Vermicomposting yields high quality fertilizer with water-soluble nutrients that can reduce the need for synthetic fertilizers and pesticides which have ...
Maule, Jessica
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Low intensity light effects on survivability, biomass, tissue protein and enzyme activities of the earthworm Eudrilus eugeniae (Kinberg)

open access: yesInvertebrate Survival Journal, 2019
The biological activities of invertebrates are influenced by environmental factors. Surface feeding soil animals such as epigeic earthworms are likely to be influenced by the type and intensity of light unlike deep dwelling species which live in dark ...
CSK Mishra, S Nayak, S Samal
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Vermicomposting, waste recycling and plant growth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Vermicomposting has been proposed as a sustainable technique for managing various types of organic wastes. The aims of this study were to test the feasibility of vermicomposting two of Canterbury’s problematic wastes (organic municipal waste and the used
Yuan, Ye
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Waste recycling: utilization of coffee grounds and kitchen waste in vermicomposting. Bioresource Technol

open access: yes, 2009
a b s t r a c t Vermicomposting using Lumbricus rubellus for 49 days was conducted after 21 days of pre-composting. Three different combination of treatments were prepared with eight replicates for each treatment namely cow dung: kitchen waste in 30:70 ...
A J Adi, Z M Noor
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