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Effectiveness of sewage sludge in composting process of municipal solid waste

S.D. Narkhede1 * , V.D. Pawar1 , N.J. Patil1 and S.B. Attarde1

1 School of Environmental and Earth Sciences, North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, India

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.4.1.27

Present study determines that 60 days degradation period used for composting of Municipal solid waste with sewage sludge was beneficial as rate of composting process has enhances due to optimum favorable conditions provided as well the catalyst used for the composting process as sewage sludge have shown tremendous progress in increasing the fertility of compost compared with the control samples. Reduction in heavy metal content like Cu, Fe, Ni, Mg, Mn, Zn etc has been observed after the composting process


Municipal Solid Waste; Sewage Sludge; Compost; Fertility

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Narkhede S.D, Pawar V.D, Patil N.J, Attarde S.B. Effectiveness of sewage sludge in composting process of municipal solid waste. Curr World Environ 2009;4(1):171-174 DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.4.1.27

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Narkhede S.D, Pawar V.D, Patil N.J, Attarde S.B. Effectiveness of sewage sludge in composting process of municipal solid waste. Curr World Environ 2009;4(1):171-174. Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org/?p=927

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