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Composting is considered as one of the most suitable ways of disposing unpleasant wastes and of increasing the amount of organic matter that can be used to restore and perserve the environment. The advantage of the Rutgers compsting system is that a stable compost can be obtained in a short period of time.
Eight different composts were prepared by this method, using a wide variaty of wastes. Their evolutions were studied. Two of them were used as organic fertilizer. The results showed that there were not significant differences from the yields obtained with inorganic fertilizer. Other four composts were used as component of substrates for ornamental plants. The results indicated that they could be use sucessfully up to half of the whole volume of substrate. The third application was as substrates for seedling prodution. The preliminary results indicated that the yield depended mainly on the level of salts.
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Roig, A., Bernal, M.P. (1996). Effectiveness of the Rutgers System in Composting Several Different Wastes for Agricultural Uses. In: de Bertoldi, M., Sequi, P., Lemmes, B., Papi, T. (eds) The Science of Composting. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1569-5_63
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