Waste compost

McSorley R, Gallaher RN (1996) Effect of yard waste compost on nematode densities and maize yield. J Nematol 28 655-660... 

Denmark Organic household waste compost with no classification up to now. No quality criteria for green/yard waste compost necessary. 

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. 

Hortenstine CG, Rothwell DF (1973) Pelletized municipal refuse compost as a soil amendment and nutrient source of sorghum. J Environ Qual 2 343-345 Hue NV, Ikawa H, Silva JA (1994) Increasing plant available phosphorus in an ultisol with a yard waste compost. Commun Soil Sci Plant Anal 25 3291-3303 Iyamuremye F, Dick RP, Baham J (1996) Organic amendments and phosphorus dynamics I. 

Larbi M, Gobat JM, Fuchs JG (2006) Inhibition of the apple scab pathogen venturia inaequalis and the grapewine downy mildew pathogen plasmopara viticola by extracts of green waste compost. ORBIT Conference... 

Silva MTB, Menduina AM, Seijo YC, Viqueira FD-F (2007) Assessment of munidpal solid waste compost quality using standardized methods before preparation of plant growth. Waste Manage Res 25 99-108... 

Compost Facility Planning Guide for Municipal Solid Waste, No 1, The Solid Waste Composting Council, Washington, DC, 1991. 

Green waste" compost from a municipal composting plant ... 

Green waste compost Low fertility. Dig in or mulch. Available from large-scale municipal recycling centers may be low in nitrogen but high in potassium. 

Composting, however, is more than a way of recycling plant wastes. Compost builds soil stracture, increases the ability of soil to retain water, reduces erosion, improves aeration and supplies nutrients. Nutrients from compost are supplied slowly early in the season when plants are small, then more rapidly as soils warm and plants grow faster. Certain nutrients continue to be supplied for several years as compost breaks down thus, compost eiuiches soils in proportion to the amount used. 

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... 

Giusquiani, P. L., Gigliotti, G., Businelli, D., and Macchioni, A. (1994). Spectroscopic comparison between humic and fulvic acids from urban waste compost and soil. In Humic Substances in the Global Environment and Implications on Human Health, Senesi, N., and Miano,T. M., eds., Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 1303-1310. 

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. 

Malone, R.W., R.C. Warner, and M.E. Byers (1996). Runoff losses of surface-applied metribuzin as influenced by yard waste compost amendments, no-tillage, and conventional-tillage. Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol., 57 536-543. 

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. 

These included exposure to sterile water or air at 60 °C, pure fungal cultures and garden waste compost. This study showed that during a period of 50 days, water and air had very little or no effect on the degradation of PHVB in garden waste compost. The degradation was due to microbial action only. 

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