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Earthworm Technology in Organic Waste Management

Recent Trends and Advances

  • 1st Edition - October 8, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Kui Huang, Sartaj Ahmad Bhat, Fusheng Li, Vineet Kumar
  • Language: English

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Description

Earthworm Technology in Organic Waste Management: Recent Trends and Advances is a suitable contribution to the Waste and The Environment: Underlying Burdens And Management Strategies series that will be helpful in classifying and broadly addressing assessments, mitigation strategies, and the management of organic wastes using earthworms. In addition, the book provides a summary of the latest findings on emerging pollution-related issues, their sustainable management, and future perspectives. The book covers recent trends and developments in organic waste management, including the use of earthworms in municipal and industrial waste management, the role of earthworms in vermifiltration/vermiwash, and of vermicompost in crops.

Finally, the book covers the potential of earthworms in the remediation of emerging contaminants. This includes antibiotic resistance genes, heavy metals, pesticides, microplastics, and other emerging pollutants that are not covered in-depth in previously published titles.

Key features

  • Covers a broad range of information on different aspects of organic waste treatment by earthworm technology
  • Illustrates how earthworms can be used in modeling, assessment and management of environmental issues caused by geogenic, industrial and emerging pollutants
  • Highlights the reuse and recycling of industrial and municipal organic waste and recovery of value-added resources from organic waste

Readership

Environmental scientists, researchers, graduate and postgraduate students, managers, engineers, municipal and environmental engineers, waste treatment engineers and managers, and other professionals working in the areas of environmental science, waste management, environmental remediation, and other relevant areas who aspire to work on the environmental management, bioremediation and biodegradation of organic wastes using biological organisms towards environmental sustainability, Environmental chemists, managers, microbiologists, biotechnologists, administrators, policymakers, environmental consultants, industry personnel

Table of contents

1. Earthworm-Associated Bacterial Community and Their Role in Organic Waste Decomposition

2. How earthworms affect the microbial community during vermicomposting for organic waste recycling

3. Exploring the transferring and transformation of PAHs in vermifiltration for domestic wastewater treatment

4. Vermiremediation of Organic Wastes: Vermicompost as Powerful Plant Growth Promoter

5. Vermiremediation of Plant Agro Waste to Recover Residual Nutrients and Improve Crop Productivity

6. Biochemical alterations of vermicompost produced from Eichhornia crassipes (water hyacinth) and cattle dung

7. Use of vermicompost and vermiwash for the growth and production of tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) - A case study in Suriname

8. Earthworm mediated amelioration of heavy metals from solid organic waste: An ecotechnology approach towards valorization

9. Vermicomposting as a tool for removal of heavy metal contaminants from soil and water environment

10. Microplastics and Earthworms: Transport, Remediation and Effects of Antibiotic Resistant Genes From Sludge to Soil

11. Sophisticated Instrumental Techniques to Determine the Maturity of Vermicompost Produced from Organic Wastes

12. Exposure to Emerging Contaminants: Ecotoxicological Effects on Earthworms and Prospective Roles of Gut Associated Microorganisms in Their Bioremediation

13. Influence of Earthworm Combined with Bermudagrass on the content and bioavailability of Heavy Metal in Reclaimed Soil

14. The Power of Earthworm: Vermicompost Drives to Sustainable Agriculture

15. Utilization and Effect of Vermiwash and Vermicompost on Plant Growth and Development

16. Emerging pollutants in waste: Occurrence, Impact, Removal and screening Technologies

17. Analysis of carbon emissions in composting and vermicomposting of excess sludge

18. Bacterial 16s rDNA diversity in the gut of Eisenia fetida revealed by metagenomics and high-throughput sequencing technology

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 8, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

KH

Kui Huang

Kui Huang is a professor and department chairman of specializing in the subject of environmental ecological engineering at the School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China. He received his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Gifu University, Japan in 2014. He served as a researcher for the River Basin Research Center at Gifu University for two years before joining Lanzhou Jiaotong University in 2015. His teaches courses including water engineering construction and environmental ecological engineering. His research interest involves fundamental and applied aspects of biological contaminant reduction, aerobic biodegradation process, water quality safety in river basin, and organic solids recycling, with a focus on biological and sustainable treated system of wastes by earthworms.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou, China

SB

Sartaj Ahmad Bhat

Dr. Sartaj Ahmad Bhat is working as a JSPS Postdoctoral Researcher at the River Basin Research Center, Gifu University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Guru Nanak Dev University, India, in 2017. His primary research focuses on the development and evaluation of treatment technologies for organic waste and wastewater from domestic and industrial outlets as well as organic waste recycling, with a focus on the biological and sustainable treatment by earthworms. He has published over 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals and co-edited 13 books. Dr. Bhat serves as an associate/academic editor, editorial board member, or advisory board member on more than 15 journals. He has been awarded several postdoctoral/research fellowships, and has also received the 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award from the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health and Top Peer Reviewer 2019 award for Environment and Ecology (Web of Science).

Affiliations and expertise
Postdoctoral Researcher, River Basin Research Center, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan

FL

Fusheng Li

Prof. Fusheng Li is a Professor in the Division of Water System Safety and Security Studies and the Graduate School of Engineering at Gifu University, Japan. He received his BS degree in Environmental engineering from Lanzhou Jiaotong University of China in 1986, MS degree from Kitami Institute of Technology of Japan in 1994, and PhD degree from the Gifu University of Japan in 1998. Dr. Li is directing the Division of Water Quality Studies that covers the fields from water quality to water and wastewater treatment, and recently to resource and energy recovery from organic waste. The ongoing research projects in his lab include adsorption; membrane filtration, enhanced coagulation, disinfection; biological water and wastewater treatment; vermicomposting treatment of vegetable waste and activated sludge; microbial fuel cell; physicochemical water quality assessment; biological water quality assessment.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, River Basin Research Center, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan

VK

Vineet Kumar

Vineet Kumar is presently working as a National Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences at Central University of Rajasthan, Rajasthan, India. He earned his Ph.D. (2018) in Environmental Microbiology from Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar (A Central) University, Lucknow, India. His research interests include waste management, bioremediation, phytoremediation, metagenomics, wastewater treatment, environmental monitoring, bioplastic, and biofuel production. He has published more than 45 articles in peer-reviewed international journals of repute, 54 book chapters, and 4 scientific magazine articles, with more than citations of 2100, and h-index of 26. In addition, he has published 2 authored and 22 edited books on various aspects of science and engineering by Elsevier, Springer, CRC Press, RSC, and Wiley. He has been serving as a guest editor and reviewer in more than 50 International Journals for his research area. He is an active member of numerous scientific societies including the Microbiology Society (UK), the Indian Science Congress Association (India), the Association of Microbiologists of India (India), etc.
Affiliations and expertise
National Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Central University of Rajasthan, Rajasthan, India

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