Assessing the alteration of physicochemical characteristics in composted organic waste in a prototype decentralized composting facility

Panaretou, V.; Vakalis, Stergios; Ntolka, Aggeliki; Sotiropoulos, A.; Μουστάκας, Κωνσταντίνος; Malamis, Dimitris; Loizidou, Maria

doi:10.1007/s11356-019-05307-7

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“…Considering the limitations of centralized waste treatment facilities originating from diverting food waste and increased costs for collecting and transporting waste in long distances, some of municipal composting programs may not be fully successful. In addition, high operational costs and operational complexity are other factors that should be taken into consideration for centralized systems [39,51,52]. At this point, alternative strategies must be identified and developed, such as decentralized collection and treatment.…”

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Decentralized Community Composting: Past, Present and Future Aspects of Italy

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Italy is among the top biowaste-generating countries in Europe, and has a well-structured waste management framework with quite a number of centralized composting facilities. In recent years, there has also been huge interest from local communities in decentralized composting. Although decentralized community composting is common in some countries, there is still a lack of information on the operative environment together with its potential logistical, environmental, economic, and social impacts. Considering the national Italian legislation on community composting as well as successfully implemented projects at EU level, Italy can set a model especially for Mediterranean countries that intend to build decentralized composting programs. Therefore, in the context of this review paper, a brief overview of the composting process was presented together with main applications in centralized and especially in decentralized composting, while the main focus was kept on the operative and legislative information gathered from Italian community composting. There is a huge difference in the number of composting plants between the regions, and the lack of centralized facilities in the central and southern regions can be supported by decentralized solutions. Decentralizing waste treatment facilities and thus creating local solutions to urban waste management strategies will help to achieve the resource recovery and valorization targets in line with the circular economy.

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Decentralized Community Composting: Past, Present and Future Aspects of Italy

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“…O composto produzido por famílias ou pequenas comunidades (como em condomínios ou blocos de apartamentos) normalmente pode ser utilizado nestas mesmas áreas, o que exemplifica o fechamento de ciclos localmente. Este tipo de sistema descentralizado oferece ainda uma oportunidade de tratamento de resíduos para lugares remotos, onde em muitos casos não existe coleta de resíduos (PANARETOU et al, 2019).…”

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O ensino da compostagem doméstica como instrumento para promoção da economia circular em sistemas de gestão e gerenciamento de resíduos sólidos urbanos

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No Brasil, quase metade dos resíduos sólidos gerados nas cidades é orgânico, mas menos de 1% são reutilizados. A economia circular apresenta uma abordagem para sua valorização, onde a compostagem é uma ferramenta para alcançar este objetivo. Este trabalho consistiu em capacitar pessoas para realizarem esta atividade por meio de oficinas, workshops, palestras e treinamentos, obtendo um alcance direto de 291 participantes. Um questionário também foi aplicado para analisar a eficácia das capacitações. Os resultados demonstraram que 65,2% continuam praticando a compostagem, 42,9% estão separando melhor os seus resíduos e 38,1% afirmaram que reduziram o desperdício de alimentos. Dessa forma, a compostagem pode ser uma técnica com potencial para minimização de diversos impactos ambientais.

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“…sezonskog je karaktera i ovisi o lokalnim vegetacijskim ciklusima, a sve manje ovisi o varijacijama ostataka hrane tijekom cijele godine. 8 Procijenjeni sastav biootpada s osnovnim podatcima za proračun prikazan je u tablici 3.…”

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