Earthworms -- The Waste Managers

Their Role in Sustainable Waste Management Converting Waste into Resource While Reducing Greenhouse Gases

Rajiv K Sinha, Sunil Heart, Dalsukh Valani, Brijal K Soni, Vinod Chandran (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

63 Seiten

2012
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-61122-136-7 (ISBN)

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Millions of tons of municipal solid wastes (MSW) comprising a great proportion of 'food & green garden wastes' generated from homes and institutions are ending up in the landfills everyday, creating extraordinary economic problems for the local government and environmental problems for the society due to increasingly high cost of landfill construction, waste disposal and monitoring for emission of powerful 'greenhouse gases', 'toxic gases' and discharge of 'leachate' with serious risk of polluting groundwater. Studies indicate that vermi-composting of food and garden wastes by waste-eater earthworms is more efficient over the conventional aerobic systems. This book explores the possibilities of management in this area.

Introduction; Vermicomposting of Organic Wastes: An Efficient & Hygienic System; Wastes Suitable for Vermicomposting; Important Studies on Vermicomposting of Waste; Mechanism of Worm Action in Composting Process; Experimental Study of Composting of Mixed Food & Garden Wastes by Aerobic, Anaerobic & Vermicomposting Systems in Methodical & Casual Ways; Index.

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	215 x 140 mm
Gewicht	138 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-61122-136-6 / 1611221366
ISBN-13	978-1-61122-136-7 / 9781611221367
Zustand	Neuware