Horticulturae,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
11(4), P. 433 - 433
Published: April 18, 2025
As
part
of
the
European
Green
Deal,
Farm
to
Fork
strategy
was
introduced
with
idea
that
environment,
agriculture
and
food
are
interconnected
topics.
Reducing
use
synthetic
fertilizers
by
20%
before
2030
through
adoption
circular
economy
principles
is
one
goals
be
achieved.
There
several
bioproducts
can
obtained
from
valorization
agro-industrial
wastes
used
increase
crop
yields
under
low-fertilizer
applications.
However,
aim
this
review
describe
production
methods
compost
tea
on
horticultural
crops
understand
its
real
potential
in
providing
plant
growth
support.
The
effects
vary
widely
depending
waste
material
used,
quality,
process
parameters,
interaction
between
species
application
dose.
Therefore,
because
heterogeneity,
it
possible
we
would
achieve
real,
positive
impacts
environment
if
there
were
more
collaboration
research
sector
private
farms.
This
allow
development
protocols
for
customized
according
farm
needs.
reduce
both
costs
associated
disposal
produced
supply
fertilizers.
on-farm
guidelines
a
balanced
trade-off
agricultural
productivity
environmental
sustainability.
literature
shows
most-used
dilution
ratios,
regardless
type
starting
compost,
range
1:5
1:10
compost–water
(v/v).
Although
complete
understanding
biostimulatory
mechanisms
activated
lacking,
bioproduct
improve
physiological
productive
performance
many
interest,
especially
suboptimal
conditions
such
as
organic
production.
Sustainability,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
16(15), P. 6329 - 6329
Published: July 24, 2024
With
increases
in
global
population
and
urbanization,
the
production
of
Municipal
Solid
Waste
(MSW)
is
growing
rapidly,
thus
contributing
to
social
environmental
concerns
for
sustainable
waste
management.
This
study
addresses
research
gap
optimizing
composting,
hypothesizing
that
integrating
best
practices
recent
innovations
can
enhance
efficiency
process.
Data
were
collected
through
a
systematic
review
existing
literature
using
Google
Scholar
Scopus
databases.
The
provides
an
overview
municipal
organic
outlining
its
processes,
benefits,
challenges
with
aim
identifying
key
area
further
improvement
possibilities
adopting
technological
innovations.
analysis
emphasized
advances
as
microbial
inoculants
or
in-vessel
composting
have
greatly
improved
quality
resulting
compost.
However,
several
remain,
including
managing
contaminants
such
heavy
metals
microplastics,
ensuring
compost
safety
addressing
socioeconomic
barriers
prevent
widespread
adoption.
Moreover,
process
optimization,
economic
evaluation,
well
political
public
involvement
are
essential
unlock
whole
potential
systems.
npj Materials Sustainability,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
2(1)
Published: April 8, 2024
Abstract
Data-driven
modeling
is
being
increasingly
applied
in
designing
and
optimizing
organic
waste
management
toward
greater
resource
circularity.
This
study
investigates
a
spectrum
of
data-driven
techniques
for
treatment,
encompassing
neural
networks,
support
vector
machines,
decision
trees,
random
forests,
Gaussian
process
regression,
k
-nearest
neighbors.
The
application
these
explored
terms
their
capacity
complex
processes.
Additionally,
the
delves
into
physics-informed
highlighting
significance
integrating
domain
knowledge
improved
model
consistency.
Comparative
analyses
are
carried
out
to
provide
insights
strengths
weaknesses
each
technique,
aiding
practitioners
selecting
appropriate
models
diverse
applications.
Transfer
learning
specialized
network
variants
also
discussed,
offering
avenues
enhancing
predictive
capabilities.
work
contributes
valuable
field
modeling,
emphasizing
importance
understanding
nuances
technique
informed
decision-making
various
treatment
scenarios.
Journal of Fungi,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
11(1), P. 67 - 67
Published: Jan. 16, 2025
A
significant
concentration
of
pharmaceuticals
has
been
detected
within
composted
sewage
sludge.
Their
uncomplete
removal
and
lack
monitoring
during
composting
neglects
their
potentially
toxic
effects
when
used
as
a
soil
organic
amendment.
Previously,
we
successfully
implemented
bioaugmentation–composting
system
focused
on
toxicity
pharmaceuticals’
reduction.
This
method,
however,
comprised
long
inoculant-acclimatization
period,
making
it
an
unprofitable
technology.
Hence,
this
work
aimed
to
explore
shorter
yet
effective
process
by
simultaneously
implementing
the
inoculation
native
microbial
consortium
fungus
Penicillium
oxalicum
XD
3.1
in
piles
sludge
olive
prunings.
All
were
subjected
frequent
inoculation,
windrow
turning,
physicochemical
biological
parameters.
Additionally,
both
bioaugmentation
stability
degradation
evaluated
through
different
analysis
rates
calculations.
One
hundred
days
earlier
than
previous
attempts,
treatments
achieved
adequate
conditions,
maintained
core
populations
while
improving
degrading
diversity,
around
70–72%
pharmaceutical
remotion.
Nevertheless,
only
produced
favorable
results
ideal
for
amendments
(acute
microtoxicity
phytotoxicity).
Thus,
but
equally
stable
with
P.
was
here.
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
107(17), P. 5379 - 5401
Published: July 7, 2023
The
renewable,
abundant
,
and
low-cost
nature
of
lignocellulosic
biomass
can
play
an
important
role
in
the
sustainable
production
bioenergy
several
added-value
bioproducts,
thus
providing
alternative
solutions
to
counteract
global
energetic
industrial
demands.
efficient
conversion
greatly
relies
on
catalytic
activity
carbohydrate-active
enzymes
(CAZymes).
Finding
novel
robust
biocatalysts,
capable
being
active
under
harsh
conditions,
is
imperative
achieve
economically
feasible
process.
In
this
study,
thermophilic
compost
samples
from
three
Portuguese
companies
were
collected,
their
metagenomic
DNA
was
extracted
sequenced
through
shotgun
sequencing.
A
multi-step
bioinformatic
pipeline
developed
find
CAZymes
characterize
taxonomic
functional
profiles
microbial
communities,
using
both
reads
metagenome-assembled
genomes
(MAGs)
as
input.
samples'
microbiome
dominated
by
bacteria,
where
classes
Gammaproteobacteria,
Alphaproteobacteria,
Balneolia
stood
out
for
higher
abundance,
indicating
that
degradation
mainly
driven
bacterial
enzymatic
activity.
Furthermore,
studies
revealed
our
are
a
rich
reservoir
glycoside
hydrolases
(GH),
particularly
GH5
GH9
cellulases,
GH3
oligosaccharide-degrading
enzymes.
We
further
constructed
fosmid
libraries
with
demonstrated
great
number
clones
exhibited
β-glucosidase
comparison
others
literature
showed
that,
independently
composition
process
composting
excellent
source
lignocellulose-degrading
To
best
knowledge,
first
comparative
study
CAZyme
abundance
taxonomic/functional
samples.
KEY
POINTS:
•
Sequence-
function-based
metagenomics
used
Thermophilic
composts
proved
be
GH3,
GH5,
Compost-derived
enriched
Energy Conversion and Management X,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
22, P. 100541 - 100541
Published: Feb. 1, 2024
This
work
investigated
the
feasibility
of
enhancing
biohydrogen
yield
from
agricultural
wheat
straw
by
introducing
an
electrohydrogenesis
process
into
dark
fermentation
(DF)
and
using
heat-pretreated
activated
sludge
as
inoculum
a
strategy
to
inhibit
methanogens'
growth.
The
achieved
maximum
was
5.416
mmol
H2/g-straw
with
energy
recovery
efficiency
94.4%.
It
reported
coulombic
74%
chemical
oxygen
demand
(COD)
removal
81.32%
whereas
NH3-H
42.25%.
main
volatile
fatty
acids
(VFA)
detected
at
end
DF
were
acetic
acid,
propionic
butyric
respectively,
reduced
84.07%,
77.38%,
75.52%
second
phase
electrohydrogenesis.
Moreover,
this
novel
promoted
conversion
lignocellulosic
components
compared
non-pretreated
sludge-catalyzed
fermentative
bioreactors,
where
cellulose,
lignin,
hemicellulose
rates
rose
58.4%,
55.5%,
79.5%,
respectively.
These
results
revealed
that
coupling
in
biocatalyzed
thermally-pretreated
remarkably
inhibited
methanogen
growth
improved
residues.
Hence,
investigation
provides
technology
utilizing
biomass
bioresource
other
than
waste.
