Pelleted organo-mineral fertilisers from composted pig slurry solids, animal wastes and spent mushroom compost for amenity grasslands

Waste Management

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1117-1128

  Rao, Juluri R ^a   Watabe, Miyuki ^b   Stewart, T Andrew ^c   Millar, B Cherie ^b   Moore, John E ^b  

^a AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ApT Solutions   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; COMPOSTING; FERTILIZERS; NUTRIENTS; PATHOGENS; SOLID WASTES;

ORGANO-MINERAL FERTILIZERS; PELLETIZING PHASES;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; MINERAL; NITROGEN; ORGANIC FERTILIZER; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM;

BACTERIA; COMPOSTING; FERTILIZERS; NUTRIENTS; PATHOGENS; SOLID WASTES; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AMENITY; COMPOST; COMPOSTING; FERTILIZER; GRASSLAND; MANURE; MUSHROOM; ORGANIC NITROGEN; PIG; SLURRY;

AGRICULTURAL SLURRY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIODEGRADABILITY; COMPOST; COMPOSTING; FEATHER; FRUIT HUSK; GRASSLAND; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MUSHROOM; NUTRIENT CONTENT; PAPER; POULTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID WASTE; SPRING; SUMMER; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; SWINE;

AGARICALES; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; FERTILIZERS; MANURE; NITROGEN; OOCYSTS; PHOSPHORUS; POACEAE; POTASSIUM; POULTRY; SOIL; SWINE; WASTE PRODUCTS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BASIDIOMYCOTA; SUIDAE; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 34250633556     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2006.06.010     Document Type: Article

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