Bioremediation and detoxification of industrial wastes by earthworms: Vermicompost as powerful crop nutrient in sustainable agriculture

Bhat, Sartaj Ahmad; Singh, Sharanpreet; Singh, Jaswinder; Kumar, Sunil; Bhawana,

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2018.01.003

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“…This vermicomposting material does not increase the Vermicompost fertilizers are enriched with higher concentrations of highly decomposed organic matter, improving soil fertility and crop productivity and can replace synthetic fertilizers. In this way, nutrients can be recycled and detoxified, improving environmental health [35]. The ermicomposting technique comes with total benefit, i.e., its residual matter can be used as bio fertilizer and can be applied on plants, such as maize, cowpeas, soybeans, etc., as vermiwash [36,37].…”

Section: Nutrients Recovery Processes (Nrps)mentioning

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Innovative Processes and Technologies for Nutrient Recovery from Wastes: A Comprehensive Review

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Waste management is necessary for environmental and economic sustainability, but it depends upon socioeconomic, political, and environmental factors. More countries are shifting toward recycling as compared to landfilling; thus, different researchers have presented the zero waste concept, considering the importance of sustainability. This review was conducted to provide information about different well established and new/emerging technologies which could be used to recover nutrients from wastes and bring zero waste concepts in practical life. Technologies can be broadly divided into the triangle of nutrient accumulation, extraction, and release. Physicochemical mechanisms, plants, and microorganisms (algae and prokaryotic) could be used to accumulate nutrients. Extraction of nutrient is possible through electrodialysis and crystallization while nutrient release can occur via thermochemical and biochemical treatments. Primary nutrients, i.e., nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, are used globally and are non-renewable. Augmented upsurges in prices of inorganic fertilizers and required discharge restrictions on nutrients have stimulated technological developments. Thus, well-proven technologies, such as biochar, composting, vermicomposting, composting with biochar, pyrolysis, and new emerging technologies (forward osmosis and electro-dialysis) have potential to recover nutrients from wastes. Therefore, reviewing the present and imminent potential of these technologies for adaptation of nutrient recycling from wastes is of great importance. Since waste management is a significant concern all over the globe and technologies, e.g., landfill, combustion, incineration, pyrolysis, and gasification, are available to manage generated wastes, they have adverse impacts on society and on the environment. Thus, climate-friendly technologies, such as composting, biodegradation, and anaerobic decomposition, with the generation of non-biodegradable wastes need to be adopted to ensure a sustainable future environment. Furthermore, environmental impacts of technology could be quantified by life cycle assessment (LCA). Therefore, LCA could be used to evaluate the performance of different environmentally-friendly technologies in waste management and in the designing of future policies. LCA, in combination with other approaches, may prove helpful in the development of strategies and policies for the selection of dynamic products and processes.

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“…5). Various studies on vermin-composting revealed the significant improvement in tomato yield [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. Similarly, Prativa et.…”

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“…The composition of compost also affect the yield of crops such as tomato [9]. It has been reported that an application of vermi-compost enhances soil fertility [16] by providing with essential nutrient [17]. In Pakistan, little work has been done on using local 382 species of earthworms for preparation of vermicompost.…”

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Effects of Composted and Vermicomposted Sugarcane Industry Wastes and Farm Manure on Tomato Quality and Yield

Shah

Abid

Qayyum

2020

Mehran Univ. res. j. eng. technol.

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A field study was conducted to signify the use of sugarcane industrial and dairy farm wastes through composting and vermi-composting and application to tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum L) crop to evaluate any effects on growth, yield and fruit quality. Composts and vermi-composts of FM (Farm Manure), SB (Sugarcane Bagasse), SP (Sugarcane Pressmud), mixture of SB×SP×SE [sugarcane effluent (1:1:1)] @ 10 t ha1, respectively were applied before transplanting of nursery. The fertilizers NPK @ 81-76-76 kg ha-1 were also applied in all plots. Overall, there were significant (p≤0.05) impacts of treatments on agronomic and fruit quality traits. Plant height, stem diameter, number of leaves, number of fruits and yield were increased by 37, 67, 62, 59 and 24% with FMVC (Farm Manure Vermi-Compost) treatment over control. There was 6% increase in soluble solids of tomato fruit in FMVC plots compared with control treatment. However, maximum titrable acidity (0.0081mg citric acid/100g) in fruit juice was found in MVC plots. TN (Total Nitrogen) concentration of tomato fruit juice was increased by 1.74% in with FMVC over control treatments. Maximum lycopene contents (22.19 mg kg-1) were observed in FMVC plots as compared to all other treatments. It could be concluded that all treatments improved growth, yield and quality of fruit compared with control; whereas FMVC treatment performed better.

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“…Worm populations of the species Eisenia fetida, which are most effective in processing the substrate, carry out their activities in symbiosis with microorganisms such as Bacillusspp. : B. megaterium, B. pumillus, B. subtilis [5].…”

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Directions for Developing Industrial Bioconversion of Organic Waste in Russia

Novikov¹,

Kozenko²,

Dzhambulatov³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the IV International Scientific and Practical Conference 'Anthropogenic Transformation of Geospace: Nature, Econ

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This work's purpose is to study the industrial composting of organic waste as an environment for the development of research and production cooperation. The problem of the organic waste processing of the agro-industrial complex and housing and public services is one of the key factors of environmental safety while having a high potential for the introduction of innovative biotechnologies. In the western world, organic waste is practically not subjected to unsafe disposal for the environment, instead of being the raw material for bioconversion into environmentally sound substances, including those subject to further profitable use in agricultural and industrial production. The scalability and replicability of these biotechnologies allow them to be adapted for implementation in Russian conditions. The technologies of bioconversion of agricultural and municipal organic waste, represented primarily by wastewater mud of different chemical composition, as well as livestock breeding complex and litter manure, based on their processing by earthworms, specialty crops of microfauna and microflora, were studied, for which the methodology of system analysis, comparative and monographic methods were used. The result of the work is the generalization and system integration of the most advanced experience of biotechnological processing of organic waste, which allowed to develop a provisional concept of expanded reproduction of soil fertility as a binary ecological and economic system and to offer innovative technologies for the processing of organic waste, adapted to Russian conditions.

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Bioremediation and detoxification of industrial wastes by earthworms: Vermicompost as powerful crop nutrient in sustainable agriculture

Cited by 158 publications

References 58 publications

Innovative Processes and Technologies for Nutrient Recovery from Wastes: A Comprehensive Review

Innovative Processes and Technologies for Nutrient Recovery from Wastes: A Comprehensive Review

Effects of Composted and Vermicomposted Sugarcane Industry Wastes and Farm Manure on Tomato Quality and Yield

Directions for Developing Industrial Bioconversion of Organic Waste in Russia

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