Biological response of using municipal solid waste compost in agriculture as fertilizer supplement

Srivastava, Vaibhav; Araújo, Ademir Sérgio Ferreira de; Vaish, Barkha; Bartelt–Hunt, Shannon L.; Singh, Pooja; Singh, Rajeev Pratap

doi:10.1007/s11157-016-9407-9

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“…To avoid toxic effect of chemically produced fertilizers on soil health, the biologically treated organic wastes are the best option which could augment the soil fertility. The best way to utilize large volume of nutrient rich agro-wastes is by recycling through appropriate biological processes like composting, vermicomposting or anaerobic digestate [155,156]. Bekchanov and Mirzabaev [157] evaluated that recycling of agro-wastes through composting causes reduction of expenses from US$ 357 to 197 million in total agro-waste management and fertilizer usage cost.…”

Section: Economic Perspective On Nutrient Recoverymentioning

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Energy and nutrient recovery from agro-wastes: Rethinking their potential possibilities

Vaish

Srivastava

Singh

et al. 2019

Environmental Engineering Research

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Agricultural sector has inescapably drawn attention towards itself due to growing concern over population explosion, changing climate and depletion of resources. Advancements in technology have caused rapid boost in farm productivity and hence huge production of agro-wastes. There have been massive deteriorating impacts of agro-wastes on existing environmental conditions, creating wide scale environmental pollution as well as biodiversity loss. Since, agro-wastes have huge potential in the form of energy and nutrient recovery (ENR), amalgamations of different technologies would promote sustainability. ENR not only adjoins an added profitable product but also facilitates to close environmental nutrient cycles. This provides a substitute to existing unsustainable approaches that are energy demanding and reliant on nonrenewable sources of energy. This review underpins why ENR from agro-waste must be key concern in production of array of higher value products.

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Section: Economic Perspective On Nutrient Recoverymentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy and nutrient recovery from agro-wastes: Rethinking their potential possibilities

Vaish

Srivastava

Singh

et al. 2019

Environmental Engineering Research

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“…Sewage sludge adds Cr, Cu, Zn, Pb, Ni, and Cd while animal manure augments the soil by adding Mn, Cu, Zn, and Co (Verkleij, 1993). Land application of sewage sludge is one of the most important contributors of heavy metal in the soil (Singh and Agrawal, 2008;Araújo et al, 2010;Singh et al, 2011Singh et al, , 2012Srivastava et al, 2015Srivastava et al, , 2016Sharma et al, 2017). Several pesticides are also a major source of heavy metal contamination in agricultural fields (Ross, 1994;Wei and Yang, 2010;Tóth et al, 2016;Marrugo-Negrete et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Modern agricultural practices have caused agricultural pollution leading to degradation of the ecosystem and the environment due to increased application of agrochemicals and inorganic fertilizers (Malik et al, 2017). Additionally, land application of sewage sludge, organic waste manure, industrial byproducts, and irrigation with waste water are major sources of heavy metals into agricultural systems (Khan et al, 2013;Srivastava et al, 2016;Tóth et al, 2016;Sharma et al, 2017;Woldetsadik et al, 2017) (Figure 1).…”

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Agroecological Responses of Heavy Metal Pollution with Special Emphasis on Soil Health and Plant Performances

Srivastava

Sarkar

Singh

et al. 2017

Front. Environ. Sci.

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With modern day urbanization and industrialization, heavy metal (HM) contamination has become a prime concern for today's society. The impacts of metal contamination on agriculture range from the agricultural soil to the produce in our food basket. The heavy metals (HMs) and metalloids, including Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, Sn, Hg, Pb, among others, can result in significant toxic impacts. The intensification of agricultural land use and changes in farming practices along with technological advancement have led to heavy metal pollution in soil. Metals/metalloids concentrations in the soil are increasing at alarming rate and affect plant growth, food safety, and soil microflora. The biological and geological reorganization of heavy metal depends chiefly on green plants and their metabolism. Metal toxicity has direct effects to flora that forms an integral component of ecosystems. Altered biochemical, physiological, and metabolic processes are found in plants growing in regions of high metal pollution. However, metals like Cu, Mn, Co, Zn, and Cr are required in trace amounts by plants for their metabolic activities. The present review aims to catalog major published works related to heavy metal contamination in modern day agriculture, and draw a possible road map toward future research in this domain.

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“…In a moment where the amounts of municipal solid waste are increasing in association to the rise of urban population, composting allows one to manage the large amounts of organic waste produced in urban areas in a simple and efficient way. There are several options for the reutilization of the compost produced from urban wastes, including the amendment of agricultural soils [1,2], production of soilless substrates [3,4], remediation of degraded lands and contaminated soils [5,6] and treatment of polluted wastewaters [7,8]. In addition, the increasing interest in urban agriculture and food production in the urban environment offers new opportunities for the use of urban waste composts [9,10], whether it is performed on soils [11,12] or in soilless media [13][14][15].…”

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Heavy Metal Uptake of Lettuce and Ryegrass from Urban Waste Composts

Paradelo

Villada

Barral

2020

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Interest in using urban waste composts as amendments in urban agriculture is growing nowadays. However, concerns about the potential transference of pollutants present in urban waste to the food chain are very relevant when they are recycled for food or animal feed production. Thus, for the safe use of urban waste composts, it has to be assured that no risk of metal transference to plants from compost exists. In this work, the transference of heavy metals from urban waste composts to plants has been studied in an experiment with lettuce and Italian ryegrass, grown in substrates based on five metal-rich composts and a manure vermicompost (included for comparison). A two-month pot experiment was performed under controlled light and temperature conditions, and plant growth and uptake of Cu, Pb, Cd and Zn were analyzed. For both species, the concentration of metals in plant tissue followed the sequence Zn > Cu >> Pb ≈ Cd, the same as the metal concentrations in four out of the five composts. Plant concentrations of Zn, Cu and Cd increased with their concentrations in compost, whereas this relation was not observed for Pb. The ratio between element concentration in plant and compost were much higher for Zn, Cd and Cu than for Pb, showing the lower bioavailability of Pb with respect to other metals.

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Biological response of using municipal solid waste compost in agriculture as fertilizer supplement

Cited by 84 publications

References 109 publications

Energy and nutrient recovery from agro-wastes: Rethinking their potential possibilities

Energy and nutrient recovery from agro-wastes: Rethinking their potential possibilities

Agroecological Responses of Heavy Metal Pollution with Special Emphasis on Soil Health and Plant Performances

Heavy Metal Uptake of Lettuce and Ryegrass from Urban Waste Composts

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