Prospects of Organic Waste Management and the Significance of Earthworms /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Series: | Applied Environmental Science and Engineering for a Sustainable Future,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction to organic wastes and its management
- 2. An Introduction to anaerobic digestion of organic wastes
- 3. Composting - a traditional practice of waste treatment
- 4. General Introduction to earthworms, their classifications, and biology
- 5. Important digestive enzymes of earthworm
- 6. Microbial ecology associated with earthworm and its gut
- 7. Optimal conditions and environmental factors involved in breeding earthworms for vermicomposting
- 8. Vermicomposting - an earthworm mediated waste treatment technique
- 9. Vermicompost, its applications and derivatives
- 10. Vermifiltration of organic wastes: Palm oil mill effluent (POME)
- 11. Earthworm based products, scope and future perspectives
- 12. Organic waste management practices and their impact on human health.