Tropical Aquatic and Soil Pollution, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 4(2), P. 111 - 126

Published: Oct. 27, 2024

The rapid pace of urbanization and development has led to an increasing global concern over polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) due their persistent widespread presence in the environment, posing significant threats ecosystems human health. PAHs originate from both natural human-made sources can be categorized based on origin into pyrogenic, petrogenic, biogenic products. Upon entering undergo various chemical biological transformations, movement occurs through processes such as air-to-soil soil-to-air transport. Composting, a green cost-effective technology, offers promising solution for PAH remediation. This process, which includes mesophilic, thermophilic, cooling, maturing stages, yield compost that is useful fertilizer soil amendment agriculture. success composting depends factors substrate bioavailability, oxygen levels, nutrient supply, environmental conditions. While shown effectiveness reducing it not without challenges, including risk weed infestation, greenhouse gas emissions, odor pollution. main obstacles remediation today are limited bioaccessibility insufficient focus formation oxygenated during process. Future research should address these particularly by improving mitigating issues related emissions.

Language: Английский