Municipal waste compost was evaluated under open field conditions for replacing synthetic fertilizers in a vegetable three-year succession. Three rates, 45 t ha–1, 30 ha–1 and 15 (dry matter), at combined with 25%, 50% of the full nitrogen rate, were compared to none fertilizations. Crop succession was: tomato followed by endive first year; eggplant and, then, broccoli second endive/broccoli, t...

municipal solid waste compost (mswc) has been reported to improve soil fertility, plant development, yield and quality. polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (pah) is produced during the composting process which may cause cancer if introduced in human diet. an experiment was conducted at the experimental field of the agronomy faculty, university of guilan, rasht, iran, in 2008, to determine the effec...

Changes in the emission rate of volcanic sulphur dioxide (SO2) are crucial parameters for identifying unrest and forecasting eruptive activity. Ground-based ultraviolet (UV) remote sensing provides a near continuous record SO2 rate, with Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS) being preferred method quantifying absorption from recorded spectra. However, retrieving accurate column am...

Potentially toxic elements (PTE), e.g. As, Sb, Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn, can severely impact soil element cycling, organic matter turnover and inhabiting microbiota. Very often this has dramatic consequences for plant growth yield which are greatly restricted in PTE-contaminated soils. The use of innovative amendments to reduce the labile pool such contaminants, result as a feasible sustainable strategy ...

Background: Garment workers face several ergonomic stressors due to poor physical work environment. Objectives: The aim of this study was assess the health status and applied safety measures in garment industry. Subjects Methods: This comparative cross-sectional conducted at Miser Spinning Weaving Company (MSWC) El Mahala Kobra City, Gharbyia Governorate, Egypt. included 350 female an equal num...

chemical stabilization of heavy metals is one of the soil remediation methods based on the application amendments to reduce mobility of heavy metals. a laboratory study was conducted to investigate the influence of different kinds of amendments on cadmium (cd) stabilization in a cd-spiked soil. the amendments were municipal solid waste compost (mswc), coal fly ash (cfa), rice husk biochars prep...

Antimicrobial agents produced by the soil borne microorganisms like (Actinomycetales, Pseudomonas auregenosa, staphyllo coccous spp etc) community in the industrial areas as well as in agricultural soil have been reported to amend with diverse amounts of municipal solid waste compost (MSWC) or farmyard manure (FM). It was shown, by using the 16S rDNA polymerase chain reaction—restriction fragme...

Five treatments were compared using two half-highbush blueberry cultivars (cv Chippewa and Polaris) transplanted and grown for their first three growing seasons at a site in Boutiliers Point, N.S., a Gibraltar brown sandy loam (Ferro-Humic Podzol). The five treatments were as follows: Alfalfa meal + rock P + wood ash; NPK fertilizer; Municipal Solid Waste (MSWC) compost; Ruminant compost; food ...

Rapid urbanization and population growth are stressing the present agricultural systems could threaten food security in near future. Sustainable development agriculture is a way out to such enormously growing demand. Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) considered pivotal providing adequate nutrition health plants maintaining soil microbial dynamics. In study, municipal solid waste composts (...