Municipal solid waste compost

Silva et al. (2007) characterized a municipal solid waste compost (MSWC) based on standardized European Methods (ECN) for soil improvers and growing media and found that MSWC presents a lower C/N ratio (15) than peat and composted pine bark. 

Bhattacharyya, P., Ghosh, A.K., Chakraborty, A. et al. (2003) Arsenic uptake by rice and accumulation in soil amended with municipal solid waste compost. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 34(19-20), 2779-90. 

TABLE 4.3. Acidic Functional Group Contents of Humic Acids (HAs) and Fnlvic Acids (FAs) Isolated from Cattle Manure (CM), Sewage Sludge (SS), Municipal Solid Waste Compost (MSWC), Liquid Swine Manure (LSM), Soils Amended with 25tha 1yr 1 of CM for 4 Years (SO + CM25), 25,50, and lOOtha yr1 of SS for 4 Years (SO + SS25,... 

Garcfa-Gil, J. C., Ceppi, S. B., Velasco, M. I., Polo, A., and Senesi, N. (2004b). Long-term effects of amendment with municipal solid waste compost on the elemental and acidic... 

Jerzykiewicz, M., Drozd, J., and Jezierski, A. (1999). Organic radicals and paramagnetic metal complexes in municipal solid waste composts. An EPR and chemical study. Chemosphere 39, 253-268. 

Kaschl, A., Romheld, V., and Chen, Y. (2002). Cadmium binding by fractions of dissolved organic matter and humic substances from municipal solid waste compost. /. Environ. Qual. 31,1885-1892. 

Pedra, F, Polo, A., Ribeiro, A., and Domingues, H. (2007). Effects of municipal solid waste compost and sewage sludge on mineralization of soil organic matter. Soil Biol. Biochem., doi 10.1016/j.soilbio.2006.12.014. 

Figure 16.41. Fluorescence excitation-emission matrix spectra of humic acids (HA) isolated from municipal solid waste compost (MSWC), from soil amended with MSWC at 40tha 1yr 1 (MSWC40), and from the corresponding unamended control soil (MSWC0), in the absence and presence of Cu2+, Zn2+, Cd2+, and Pb2+ ions at a total concentration of 40 xmol liter-1. EEWPmax denotes the excitation/emission wavelength pairs at maximum fluorescence intensity (Plaza et al., 2006).

Jezierski, A., Drozd, J., Jerzykiewicz, M., Chen, Y., and Kaye, K. J. (1998). EPR in the environmental control Copper complexes and free radicals in soil and municipal solid waste compost. Appl. Magn. Reson. 14, 275-282. 

Provenzano, M. R., Senesi,N., and Piccone, G. (1998b).Thermal and spectroscopic characterization of composts from municipal solid wastes. Compost Sci. Util. 6(3), 67-73. 

He, XT., Logan, T.J. and Traina, S.J. (1995) Physical and chemical characteristics of selected US municipal solid-waste composts./. Environ. Qual., 24, 543-552. 

Einstein, M.S. and Morris, M.L. 1975. Microbiology of municipal solid waste composting. Advances in Applied Microbiology, 19 113-51. 

Zach, A., Latif, M., Dinner, E., and Lechner, P. 1999. Influence of mechanical-biological pretreatment on the toxicity of municipal solid waste. Compost Science and Utilization, 7(4) 25-33. 

Kashi A, Romheld V, Chen Y. The influence of soluble organic matter from municipal solid waste compost on trace metal leaching in calcareous soils. Sci Total Environ 2002 291(1 3) 45 57. 

Eitzer BD. 1995. Emissions of volatile organic chemicals from municipal solid waste composting facilities. Environmental Science and Technology 29 896-902. 

The ranges of Cd concentrations present in farmyard manure, household and municipal solid waste, compost, sewage sludge, and phosphate fertilizers are... 

Household and municipal solid waste compost also contains Cd that had its origins in agricultural soil. Composts consist of food wastes that have been microbially degraded. The food wastes contain trace amounts of Cd, most of which originated from the soil (Adriano, 2001). The degradation process results in compost with a much higher Cd concentration than the food wastes that went into it. Just like the farmyard manure, repeated applications of compost onto fields that were not the source of all of the Cd in the compost will result in localized increases in soil Cd concentration. However, the agricultural soils affected by compost application are in the minority, since compost is applied mainly to soils around urban areas. 

Polyethylene LDPE and HDPE with and without prooxidant CO2, wt. loss, tensile strength, and IR spectroscopy Municipal solid waste compost [195]... 

Richard T.L. Municipal solid waste composting biological processing, Cornell Waste Management Institute, www.css.comell.edu/compost... 

A. Kashi, V. Romheld, Y. Chen, Trace metal distribution in soluble organic matter Ifom municipal solid waste compost determined by size-exclusion chromatography. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 21 (9) (2002) 1775-1782. 

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