Composting as a Waste Management Method

Abstract

Both the waste component, the rate of waste production and the amount of waste with increasing urbanization and industrialization day by day have increased. Disposal or evaluation of these wastes resulting from industrial, commercial, domestic, treatment plant and agricultural activities has become inevitable for municipal corporations. The amount of organic waste in solid wastes is about 40%, and the priority preferences of waste management include these wastes that have been chastened and recycled into environmentally compatible products. For this reason, compost production is becoming an alternative as an environmentally friendly biodegradation option that is becoming increasingly widespread. Biodegradable wastes which are described as garbage in public by compost are possible to convert into useful products. Therefore, compost can be made from a lot of waste as tree bark, animal faces, vegetable and fruit wastes, algae and other water plants, paper, newspapers to wastewater treatment muds. These produced composts can also be used in different fields from fruit to flower, from erosion control to odour elimination filter material. In Turkey, 33*10⁶ t/year of Urban Solid Waste (USW) was produced according to the data of the year 2013 and if compost production was made from these wastes, 6.6*10⁶ t/year compost could be produced. With the assumption that 5 t/ha compost can be used for agricultural land, the amount of land that can be applied to this manufacturable compost is seen 1.3*10⁶ ha/year. In the light of this information, compost raw materials, application areas of compost, compost technologies and preferential reasons and compost-related legislations in our country have been examined.

Keywords

• compost,technology,raw material,waste,management

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