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17555958

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-1-9
pubmed:abstractText
Waste products such as biosolids and wood wastes have been frequently used in container production of plants. The use of biosolids in agriculture is a beneficial mean of recycling the by-products of waste-water treatment. However, care must be taken to avoid environmental or human health problems via run-off and leaching. The objective of this work is to compare the retention capacity of cadmium, lead, zinc and nitrate between pine bark (PB) and coconut fibre (F) when mixed with increasing amounts of composted sewage sludge (CSS) (0%, 15% and 30% (v/v)). Substrates were packed into leaching columns and irrigated with deionised water every 2 days. Leachates were collected during 1 month, and nitrate, Zn, Cd, Pb, EC and pH were monitored along the experiment. PB columns leached lower amount of nitrate than the coconut fibre ones. The same trend was observed for Zn, Cd and Pb. It could be said, that in order to minimize the environmental risks of using sewage sludges our results indicate that it is preferred to mix the sludge with pine bark instead than with coconut husk.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0960-8524
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
99
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1544-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Comparison between pine bark and coconut husk sorption capacity of metals and nitrate when mixed with sewage sludge.
pubmed:affiliation
Agricultural Chemistry Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Francisco Tomás y Valiente 7, 28049, Madrid, Spain. lourdes.hernandez@uam.es
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't