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In the face of increasing global population especially in the developing and emerging countries, the need for an innovative solid waste management that can contribute to the urban development is very urgent. In this regard, composting is an important approach to process biodegradable wastes by transforming potential organic waste fractions into a useful product such as compost. To enhance a wider spread of this organic waste management approach to reach the community, an adequate educational knowledge is needed in a participative manner in order to better understand and increase the use of compost. Composting can offer an endless possibility in organic waste management. Thus, higher education knowledge is important in order to understand some key barriers to using compost, so that the lessons learnt could help to stimulate learning in the use of composting to achieve a sustainable organic waste management.
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Over the past decades, the global population grew...
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Ishola, T.M., Ishola, E.T. (2019). Composting and Sustainable Development. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63951-2_122-1
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