Scarcity of natural resources, shifting demographics, climate change, and increasing waste
are four major challenges in the quest to feed the exploding world population. These …

Protected cultivation of high value vegetables and cut-flowers has shown tremendous
potential during the last decadeor so. With the progress of liberalized economy and the …

In this study, microorganisms were inoculated during citrus peel composting for citrus waste
recycling and valorisation. The physicochemical properties and the bacterial community …

Bacillus accelerates lignocellulose degradation, promotes the stabilization and resource
utilization of compost by secreting enzymes, and plays an important role in compost …

This work was focused on recycling different typology of pollutant wastes (olive pomace and
orange residues; municipal wastes and sulphur residue of hydrocarbon refining processes) …

This chapter covers the most representative and most widely applied media out of the
numerous existing substrates. In this chapter substrates are grouped into two categories of …

In the last decades the fraction of fresh produce and cut flowers that are grown in soilless
media are constantly growing due to the inherent advantages of substrates over soils. Peat …

Co-digestion of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) and excess sludge
has several benefits especially related to improved methane production and better process …

Digestates, a byproduct of the anaerobic bioconversion of organic wastes for the production
of biogas, are highly variable in chemical and biological properties, thus limiting their …

The industrialization process of oranges generates waste, which is inadequately disposed
of; this produces adverse effects on the environment. Among the alternatives for valorization …