Water-extractable components released during composting of municipal solid waste

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 469, Issue , 1998, Pages 111-118

  Chefetz, Benny ^a   Chen, Yona ^a   Hadar, Yitzhak ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Compost maturity; MSW

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005580765     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.1998.469.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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