A critical review of the bioavailability and impacts of heavy metals in municipal solid waste composts compared to sewage sludge

SR Smith - Environment international, 2009 - Elsevier
The content, behaviour and significance of heavy metals in composted waste materials is
important from two potentially conflicting aspects of environmental legislation in terms of:(a) …

Compost as a soil amendment to remediate heavy metal-contaminated agricultural soil: mechanisms, efficacy, problems, and strategies

M Huang, Y Zhu, Z Li, B Huang, N Luo, C Liu… - Water, Air, & Soil …, 2016 - Springer
Compost or composting has been widely investigated under the background of heavy metal
pollution of agricultural soils and rapid growth of organic wastes. Compost is rich in …

Mapping soil available copper content in the mine tailings pond with combined simulated annealing deep neural network and UAV hyperspectral images

Y Zhang, L Wei, Q Lu, Y Zhong, Z Yuan, Z Wang… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Improper discharge of slag from mining will pollute the surrounding soil, thereby affecting the
ecology and becoming an important global problem. The available copper (ACu) content in …

Interactions between metals and soil organic matter in various particle size fractions of soil contaminated with waste water

K Quenea, I Lamy, P Winterton, A Bermond, C Dumat - Geoderma, 2009 - Elsevier
Only scarce field studies concern the consequences of natural soil organic matter (SOM)
and metal interactions on SOM dynamics in soils. We investigated the interactions of four …

Inorganic and organic constituents and contaminants of biosolids: implications for land application

RJ Haynes, G Murtaza, R Naidu - Advances in agronomy, 2009 - Elsevier
Large amounts of biosolids are produced as a by-product of municipal wastewater
treatment. They are composed of about 50% organic and 50% inorganic material. The …

Organic matter–microorganism–plant in soil bioremediation: a synergic approach

G Masciandaro, C Macci, E Peruzzi, B Ceccanti… - … Science and Bio …, 2013 - Springer
Bioremediation is a natural process, which relies on bacteria, fungi, and plants to degrade,
break down, transform, and/or essentially remove contaminants, ensuring the conservation …

The effect of biochar and compost from urban organic waste on plant biomass and properties of an artificially copper polluted soil

E Cárdenas-Aguiar, G Gascó, J Paz-Ferreiro… - International …, 2017 - Elsevier
Soil contamination with copper is a global issue, in particular in soils with a history of
fertilizers, fungicides or municipal waste amendment. Several remediation techniques have …

Effects of three different biochars on aggregate stability, organic carbon mobility and micronutrient bioavailability

W Hartley, P Riby, J Waterson - Journal of Environmental Management, 2016 - Elsevier
Previous studies have demonstrated both beneficial and detrimental effects on soil
properties from biochar incorporation. Several biochars, with different feedstock origins …

Integral approach for the evaluation of poultry manure, compost, and digestate: Amendment characterization, mineralization, and effects on soil and intensive crops

PF Rizzo, BJ Young, NP Viso, J Carbajal, LE Martínez… - Waste Management, 2022 - Elsevier
The egg industry has increased its production worldwide during the last decades. Several
waste management strategies have been proposed to treat large volumes of poultry manure …

Soluble organic carbon and pH of organic amendments affect metal mobility and chemical speciation in mine soils

J Pérez-Esteban, C Escolástico, A Masaguer, C Vargas… - Chemosphere, 2014 - Elsevier
We evaluated the effects of pH and soluble organic carbon affected by organic amendments
on metal mobility to find out the optimal conditions for their application in the stabilization of …