Effects of a precomposting step on the vermicomposting of dairy manure-waste paper mixtures

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 219-228

  Mupondi, Lushian T ^a   Mnkeni, Pearson N S ^a   Muchaonyerwa, Pardon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Dairy manure; Eisenia fetida; Escherichia coli 0157; paper waste; precomposting; vermicomposting

Indexed keywords

DAIRY MANURES; EISENIA FETIDA; PAPER WASTE; PRECOMPOSTING; VERMI-COMPOSTING;

ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FORESTRY; MANURES; NUTRIENTS; PROTOZOA; STABILIZATION; WASTE PAPER;

MIXTURES;

BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; CARBON; COMPOSTING; EARTHWORM; GROWTH RATE; PROTOZOAN; SOIL BIOTA; SOIL NUTRIENT; STABILIZATION; THERMOPHILY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPOSTING; EARTHWORM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECAL COLIFORM; MANURE; NONHUMAN; PAPER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIOMASS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MANURE; OLIGOCHAETA; OOCYSTS; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOIL;

COMPOSTING; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; MANURE; MIXTURES; NUTRIENTS; PROTOZOA; STABILIZATION; WASTE PAPERS;

EISENIA FETIDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157:H-; PROTOZOA;

EID: 79951609379     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X10363142     Document Type: Article

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