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METAL BINDING BY HUMIC SUBSTANCES AND DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER DERIVED FROM COMPOST

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Soil and Water Pollution Monitoring, Protection and Remediation

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Composting of MSW is of great importance for both developed and developing countries. It can be applied with the aim of reducing the total volume of MSW, thus lowering landfilling costs, and if properly treated after careful source separation it can be a source material for substrate used in greenhouses or to amend soils with OM.

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  1. Faculty of Agricultural Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 12, Rehovot, 76100, Israel

    Yona Chen & Pearly Gat

  2. Division of Water Chemistry, Engler-Bunte-Institut, Universitüt Karlsruhe, Engler-Bunte-Ring 1, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Fritz H. Frimmel & Gudrun Abbt-Braun

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Chen, Y., Gat, P., Frimmel, F.H., Abbt-Braun, G. (2006). METAL BINDING BY HUMIC SUBSTANCES AND DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER DERIVED FROM COMPOST. In: Twardowska, I., Allen, H.E., Häggblom, M.M., Stefaniak, S. (eds) Soil and Water Pollution Monitoring, Protection and Remediation. NATO Science Series, vol 69. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4728-2_18

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