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The composting handbook : a how-to and why manual for farm, municipal, institutional and commercial composters /

The Composting Handbook provides a single guide to the science, principles and best practices of composting for large-scale composting operations facing a variety of opportunities and challenges converting raw organic materials into a useful and marketable product. Composting is a well-established a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rynk, Robert (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, United Kingdom ; San Diego, CA : Elsevier Academic Press, [2022]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why compost?
  • Enterprise planning
  • The composting process
  • Compost feedstocks
  • Passively aerated composting methods, including turned windrows
  • Forced aeration composting, aerated static pile, and similar methods
  • Contained and in-vessel composting methods and methods summary
  • Composting animal mortalities
  • Composting operations and equipment
  • Site planning, development, and environmental protection
  • Process management
  • Odor management and community relations
  • Safety and health principles and practices for composting facilities
  • Facility management
  • Composting characteristics and quality
  • Compost use
  • Compost use for plant disease suppression
  • Compost marketing and sales
  • Composting economics.