A critical review of the bioavailability and impacts of heavy metals in municipal solid waste composts compared to sewage sludge.
By Stephen R. Smith. Environment International, 2009
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Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pollution, Soil Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Managing the Nutrition of Plants and People (2012, neutral): “Fortunately, the phytoavailability of many of these potentially toxic elements from municipal composts is relatively low [68, 185].”
- The Effects of Fertilizer Type and Application Time on Soil Properties, Plant Traits, Yield and Quality of Tomato (2020, background): “75/2010 and subsequent amendments) for soils and vegetables [7,40].”
- Metal bioavailability and toxicity in freshwaters (2015, background): “hydrolysis, polymerization, aggregation and precipitation, and proton competition for available ligands (Smith 2009).”
- Heavy Metals: Biological Importance and Detoxification Strategies (2016, background): “In addition, HM can also contaminate the soil through other human activities, such as: (i) exploitation of mines and smelters (ii) application of metal-based pesticides and metal-enriched sewage sludge in agriculture [17,18] (iii) combustion of fossil fuel, metallurgical industries, and electronics,”
- Soil contamination with cadmium, consequences and remediation using organic amendments. (2017, methodology): “The concentrations of Cd in sludge and composts range from 0 to 16 mg kg−1, depending on the source and technology used to produce organic amendments (Alloway, 2013; Kabata-Pendias, 2011; Smith, 2009).”
- Review of Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment and Its Relevance to Environmental Regulators (2016, background): “Biological wastewater treatment processes have been shown to be disrupted as a result of the toxic effects of heavy metals in the influent (Giller et al., 1998; Smith, 2009), such as: nitrification (Braam and Klapwijk, 1981), denitrification (Waara, 1992), and organics removal (Ajmal et al., 1983).”