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Vermicomposting technology as a tool for nutrient recovery from kitchen bio-waste

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This study was implemented to investigate the effect of using pre-composted and raw kitchen waste with the addition of woodchips and paper in vermicomposting with regard to temperature, loss of weight, fluctuation of total and available content of nutrients and viability of earthworms. Kitchen bio-waste must be pre-composted for more than 2 weeks to reach a temperature below 25 °C. Vermicomposting increased the total content of N, P, K, Ca and Mg and the availability of P and K. Addition of used paper into kitchen bio-waste proved to be a suitable feed for earthworms. On the basis of the obtained data, a new type of vermireactor for separated pre-composting and subsequent vermicomposting of food waste has been developed.

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Acknowledgments

Financial support for these investigations was provided by NAZV project No. QI91C199 of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. The authors would like to thank Emilie Brown for revision of the English text.

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    Ales Hanc

  2. Research Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Drnovska 507, 161 00, Prague, Czech Republic

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Hanc, A., Pliva, P. Vermicomposting technology as a tool for nutrient recovery from kitchen bio-waste. J Mater Cycles Waste Manag 15, 431–439 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-013-0127-8

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