Ecotoxicity of In-Situ Produced Compost Intended for Landfill Restoration

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/62156489:43410/18:43913986

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/environments5100111" target="_blank" >10.3390/environments5100111</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ecotoxicity of In-Situ Produced Compost Intended for Landfill Restoration

Original language description

Municipal solid waste (MSW) has become a matter of increasing global concern. Biological conversion is considered to be the most applicable disposal method, especially for the organic fraction of MSW. The aim of this study was to evaluate composting as a treatment method for the sustainable management and recycling of MSW and to test the ecotoxicity of the compost produced on the landfill surface. The ecotoxicity of the compost was investigated by means of a set of biological tests. The ecotoxicological impact of the compost was evaluated by plant growth tests with white mustard (Sinapis alba L.) and barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). Plants were grown under controlled conditions for 21 days, in earthen pots, treated with MSW compost (MSWC) to study the effect of MSWC on plant biomass production. Sprouts and the number of growing plants occurring in the earthen pots were counted. The values obtained from three simultaneously conducted experiments were averaged and presented. Plants growing in the earthen pots with the compost exhibited increasing plant biomass while no changes were observed in their appearance; retarded growth or necrotic changes were not recorded. The ecotoxicity tests performed show that the analyzed compost produced in the composting plant situated on the landfill surface achieved high percentages of the germinating capacity of white mustard (Sinapis alba L.) and barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) seeds and can be therefore used in the subsequent reclamation of the landfill concerned.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20701 - Environmental and geological engineering, geotechnics

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Environments

ISSN

2076-3298

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

5

Issue of the periodical within the volume

10

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

"Nestrankovano"

UT code for WoS article

000448546500005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85082597293