Ecotoxicological assessment of waste-derived organic fertilizers and long-term monitoring of fertilized soils using a multi-matrix and multi-species approach

F Carraturo, A Siciliano, A Giordano, F Di Capua… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The present study investigates the ecotoxicity of 7 biofertilizers, including biowaste-derived
organic matrices. Real-field tests were conducted to assess the impacts of soil fertilization …

Use of digestate from a decentralized on-farm biogas plant as fertilizer in soils: An ecotoxicological study for future indicators in risk and life cycle assessment

A Pivato, S Vanin, R Raga, MC Lavagnolo… - Waste management, 2016 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, the number of decentralized farm biogas plants has increased
significantly in the EU. This development leads not only to an increasing amount of biogas …

Digestate application on two different soils: agricultural benefit and risk

MR Panuccio, F Romeo, C Mallamaci… - Waste and Biomass …, 2021 - Springer
In order to valorize the use of digestate, the purposes of this study was to discriminate the
fertilizing potential of solid and liquid fractions of digestate using two soils that differed for …

A comparative life cycle assessment of biofertilizer production towards sustainable utilization of anaerobic digestate

A Alengebawy, BA Mohamed, K Jin, T Liu… - Sustainable Production …, 2022 - Elsevier
Direct application of anaerobic digestate to agricultural soil has major environmental threats.
Therefore, this study evaluates and compares four scenarios of digestate utilization as the …

[HTML][HTML] Organic micropollutants, heavy metals and pathogens in anaerobic digestate based on food waste

O Golovko, L Ahrens, J Schelin, M Sörengård… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestate based on food waste is increasingly used as fertilizer in food
production. This study examined the characteristics of anaerobic digestate based on food …

Organic wastes as soil amendments–effects assessment towards soil invertebrates

M Renaud, S Chelinho, P Alvarenga… - Journal of hazardous …, 2017 - Elsevier
Using organic wastes, as soil amendments, is an important alternative to landfilling with
benefits to soil structure, water retention, soil nutrient and organic matter concentrations …

Use of agro-industrial organic sludge amendment to remediate degraded soil: chemical and eco (geno) toxicological differences between fresh and stabilized sludge …

CG Chiochetta, S Cotelle, JF Masfaraud… - … Science and Pollution …, 2016 - Springer
Soil degraded by coal mining activities can be remediated by amendment with agro-
industrial organic sludge. However, the environmental impacts associated with this …

[HTML][HTML] Trace metal fate in soil after application of digestate originating from the anaerobic digestion of non-source-separated organic fraction of municipal solid waste

V Baldasso, N Bonet-Garcia, S Sayen… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Digestate originating from anaerobic digestion of non-source-separated
organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) is produced abundantly worldwide and …

Environmental performance in the production and use of recovered fertilizers from organic wastes treated by anaerobic digestion vs synthetic mineral fertilizers

A Herrera, G D'Imporzano, M Zilio, A Pigoli… - ACS sustainable …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recovered fertilizers (RFs), in the form of digestate and digestate-derived ammonium
sulfate, were produced from organic wastes by thermophilic anaerobic digestion (AD) at full …

Comparison of different municipal sewage sludge products for potential ecotoxicity

A Borgulat, A Zgórska, M Głodniok - Archives of Environmental …, 2022 - yadda.icm.edu.pl
To test the potential harmfulness of soils fertilized with sludge-based products to plant
organisms, a biotest method using the physiological/biochemical reaction of the organisms …