Recent research on municipal sludge as soil fertilizer in China: a review

B Zhang, X Zhou, X Ren, X Hu, B Ji - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2023 - Springer
Due to the annual increase in wastewater treatment in most Chinese cities, a major
environmental issue has arisen: safe treatment, disposal, and recycling of municipal sludge …

Systematic review of dairy processing sludge and secondary STRUBIAS products used in agriculture

Y Hu, O Khomenko, W Shi… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Worldwide dairy processing plants produce high volumes of dairy processing sludge (DPS),
which can be converted into secondary derivatives such as struvite, biochar and ash …

Metal stressors consistently modulate bacterial conjugal plasmid uptake potential in a phylogenetically conserved manner

U Klümper, A Dechesne, L Riber, KK Brandt… - The ISME …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The environmental stimulants and inhibitors of conjugal plasmid transfer in microbial
communities are poorly understood. Specifically, it is not known whether exposure to …

Irrigation of olive groves in Southern Italy with treated municipal wastewater: effects on microbiological quality of soil and fruits

AM Palese, V Pasquale, G Celano, G Figliuolo… - Agriculture, ecosystems …, 2009 - Elsevier
The use of municipal wastewater in agriculture requires a careful monitoring of a range of
hygiene parameters. Yearly hygienic impact assessments on soil and fruit were made …

Resilience of soil bacterial community to irrigation with water of different qualities under M editerranean climate

S Frenk, Y Hadar, D Minz - Environmental microbiology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Limited freshwater (FW) availability due to climate change and increasing global
populations is driving agriculture in arid and semi‐arid regions to recycle vast quantities of …

Irrigation with treated wastewater: Effects on soil, lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) crop and dynamics of microorganisms

P Manas, E Castro, J de Las Heras - Journal of Environmental …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this study was to evaluate the applicability of treated wastewater for horticultural
crops, assess the effects of continuous use of treated water on soil and crops, and analyse …

[PDF][PDF] Survival, growth, and regrowth of enteric indicator and pathogenic bacteria in biosolids, compost, soil, and land applied biosolids

KJ Zaleski, KL Josephson, CP Gerba… - J. Residuals Sci …, 2005 - researchgate.net
In the US approximately 60% of all biosolids are currently land applied. Although it is known
that bacteria in biosolids normally decrease to low or non-detectable levels following …

Effects of storage on characteristics and hygienic quality of digestates from four co-digestion concepts of manure and biowaste

T Paavola, J Rintala - Bioresource Technology, 2008 - Elsevier
This study evaluated the effects of storage in northern winter conditions (5° C) on the
characteristics and nutrients separation of digestates from co-digestion of manure and …

Effects of elemental sulphur on heavy metal uptake by plants growing on municipal sewage sludge

G Dede, S Ozdemir - Journal of environmental management, 2016 - Elsevier
In this study experiment was carried out to determine the phytoextraction potential of six
plant species (Conium maculatum, Brassica oleraceae var. oleraceae, Brassica juncea …

A comparison of the application of different waste products to a lettuce crop: effects on plant and soil properties

E Castro, P Manas, J De las Heras - Scientia Horticulturae, 2009 - Elsevier
A romaine-type lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) was cultivated during three successive crop
seasons in an agricultural land near the Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) of Alcázar de …