Composting of animal manures and chemical criteria for compost maturity assessment. A review

MP Bernal, JA Alburquerque, R Moral - Bioresource technology, 2009 - Elsevier
New livestock production systems, based on intensification in large farms, produce huge
amount of manures and slurries without enough agricultural land for their direct application …

Composting parameters and compost quality: a literature review

K Azim, B Soudi, S Boukhari, C Perissol, S Roussos… - Organic agriculture, 2018 - Springer
Economic growth and rising food consumption in the world have led to increased production
of organic wastes due to an important intensification of the agricultural production systems …

Labile and recalcitrant pools of carbon and nitrogen in organic matter decomposing at different depths in soil: an acid hydrolysis approach

P Rovira, VR Vallejo - Geoderma, 2002 - Elsevier
The quality of soil organic matter (OM) depends on its distribution among labile and
recalcitrant pools and the quality of each pool considered. OM quality is assumed to …

Solid waste management by composting: state of the art

S Gajalakshmi, SA Abbasi - Critical reviews in environmental …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
One of the most versatile and remunerative techniques for handling biodegradable solid
wastes is composting. A large variety of such wastes of plant, animal, and synthetic origins …

Co-composting of distillery wastes with animal manures: Carbon and nitrogen transformations in the evaluation of compost stability

MA Bustamante, C Paredes, FC Marhuenda-Egea… - Chemosphere, 2008 - Elsevier
The aim of this work was to study the viability of recycling the solid wastes generated by the
winery and distillery industry by means of co-composting with animal manures, as well as to …

The biochar dilemma

A Mukherjee, R Lal - Soil research, 2014 - CSIRO Publishing
Any strategy towards widespread adoption of biochar as a soil amendment is constrained by
the scarcity of field-scale data on crop response, soil quality and environmental footprint …

Carbon, nutrient, and mass loss during composting

SM Tiquia, TL Richard, MS Honeyman - Nutrient cycling in …, 2002 - Springer
Hoop manure (a mixture of partially decomposed pig manure and cornstalks from swine fed
in hoop structures) was the subject of a nitrogen mass balance during the feeding period …

Evaluation of maturity parameters and heavy metal contents in composts made from animal manure

HJ Ko, KY Kim, HT Kim, CN Kim, M Umeda - Waste management, 2008 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to evaluate a variety of maturity indices and heavy metal
concentrations in the composting process. A full-scale study was performed on animal …

Carbon and nitrogen mineralization in different upland soils of the subtropics treated with organic materials

MI Khalil, MB Hossain, U Schmidhalter - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2005 - Elsevier
Use and management of organic waste/residues is currently an important global issue for
attaining sustainability in agricultural production. However, knowledge about the …

Composting as a sustainable waste management technique in develo** countries.

AM Taiwo - 2011 - cabidigitallibrary.org
Attaining sustainability in waste management requires an option that employs environmental
friendliness. Such a technique must be effective, efficient and less costly than many options …