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Journal articles on the topic "Urban garden waste"
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Eades, Paul, Sigrid Kusch-Brandt, Sonia Heaven, and Charles J. Banks. "Estimating the Generation of Garden Waste in England and the Differences between Rural and Urban Areas." Resources 9, no. 1 (January 16, 2020): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/resources9010008.
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Garden waste arising from private households represents a major component of the biodegradable municipal waste stream. To design effective waste valorisation schemes, detailed information about garden waste is a prerequisite. While the biochemical composition of this material is well documented, there is a lack of knowledge regarding both the quantities arising, and quantities entering the services operated by waste management authorities. This work studied the quantities of garden waste arisings at urban and rural households along with the disposal methods used. A door-to-door interview survey, an analysis of kerbside collections of garden waste, and an assessment of materials brought by citizens to a waste recycling site were carried out in Hampshire, UK. If extrapolated nationally, the results indicate that households in England produce an average of 0.79 kg of garden waste per day, or 288 kg per year. On a per capita basis, this corresponds to an annual arising of 120 kg per person, out of which around 70% enters the collection schemes of the waste management authorities. The quantity generated by rural and urban households differed substantially, with rural households producing 1.96 ± 1.35 kg per day and urban households 0.64 ± 0.46 kg per day. Rural households adopted self-sufficient methods of garden waste management such as home composting or backyard burning to a much greater extent compared with urban households. Less than half of the generated rural garden waste entered services operated by the waste collection authorities, while urban households strongly relied on these services. A detailed breakdown of the disposal routes chosen by urban and rural householders can support authorities in tailoring more effective waste management schemes.
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Small, Gaston E., Sara Osborne, Paliza Shrestha, and Adam Kay. "Measuring the Fate of Compost-Derived Phosphorus in Native Soil below Urban Gardens." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 20 (October 19, 2019): 3998. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16203998.
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The heavy reliance on compost inputs in urban gardening provides opportunities to recycle nutrients from the urban waste stream, but also creates potential for buildup and loss of soil phosphorus (P). We previously documented P in leachate from raised-bed garden plots in which compost had been applied, but the fate of this P is not known. Here, we measured P concentrations in soils below four or six-year-old urban garden plots that were established for research. We hypothesize that the soil P concentration and depth of P penetration will increase over time after gardens are established. Soil cores were collected in five garden plots of each age and quantified for inorganic weakly exchangeable P. Inorganic weakly exchangeable P was significantly elevated in native soil below garden plots (>35 cm deep) relative to reference soil profiles, and excess P decreased with increasing depth, although differences between garden plots of different ages were not significant. Our analysis shows that excess P from compost accumulates in native soil below urban garden plots. While urban agriculture has the potential to recycle P in urban ecosystems, over-application of compost has the potential to contribute to soil and water pollution.
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Suwantoro, Hajar, and Nurman Achmad. "EDU-GARDEN TRAINING FOR SUPPORTING ISLAMIC BASIC EDUCATION IN MEDAN." ABDIMAS TALENTA: Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat 3, no. 2 (October 2, 2019): 155–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.32734/abdimastalenta.v3i2.4038.
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Community service activities are focused on the problem of enriching the understanding and practice of making governance a simple garden, edu-garden, which can be done by the students of primary school in Medan city rural areas, with the conditions of the lack of urban green areas as well as the mandate of the national education, 2013 to make education sustainable environment-based vocational called as Adiwiyata school. Partnering with school teachers MIS Al Hidayah Medan Johor and Medan Selayang, be forming edu-garden as an alternative to the procurement of the garden utilizing household waste. Minimal conditions to the availability of land recycling infrastructure can be used for urban green movement through practical training programs edu-garden forming by utilizing waste for gardening activities. The result is the creation of edu-garden forming by teachers and students as teaching materials module based educational environment. The results of the simulation training and edu-garden forming this a viable alternative layout creation of urban green neighborhoods in order to achieve environmental health and public welfare.
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Zhang, Qiao-Chu, Cheng-Chen Wang, Jin-Hua Cheng, Cheng-Liang Zhang, and Jing-Jing Yao. "Removal of Cr (VI) by Biochar Derived from Six Kinds of Garden Wastes: Isotherms and Kinetics." Materials 14, no. 12 (June 11, 2021): 3243. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14123243.
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Garden waste is one of the main components of urban solid waste which affects the urban environment. In this study, garden waste of Morus alba L. (SS), Ulmus pumila L. (BY), Salix matsudana Koidz (LS), Populus tomentosa (YS), Sophora japonica Linn (GH) and Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco (CB) was pyrolyzed at 300 °C, 500 °C, 700 °C to obtain different types of biochar, coded as SSB300, SSB500, SSB700, BYB300, etc., which were tested for their Cr (VI) adsorption capacity. The results demonstrated that the removal efficiency of Cr by biochar pyrolyzed from multiple raw materials at different temperatures was variable, and the pH had a great influence on the adsorption capacity and removal efficiency. GHB700 had the best removal efficiency (89.44%) at a pH of 2 of the solution containing Cr (VI). The pseudo second-order kinetics model showed that Cr (VI) adsorption by biochar was chemisorption. The Langmuir model showed that the adsorption capacity of SSB300 was the largest (51.39 mg·g−1), BYB500 was 40.91 mg·g−1, GHB700, CBB700, LSB700, YSB700 were 36.85 mg·g−1, 36.54 mg·g−1, 34.53 mg·g−1 and 32.66 mg·g−1, respectively. This research, for the first time, used a variety of garden wastes to prepare biochar, and explored the corresponding raw material and pyrolysis temperature for the treatment of Cr (VI). It is hoped to provide a theoretical basis for the research and utilization of garden wastes and the production and application of biochar.
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Figueroa-Escamilla, Lorena, Simon Gonzalez-Martinez, Rosalinda Campuzano, and Idania Valdez-Vazquez. "Methane production and bromatological characteristics of the different fractions of organic municipal solid waste." Detritus, no. 15 (June 30, 2021): 13–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.31025/2611-4135/2021.15095.
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In some countries, garden trimmings are not considered part of urban solid wastes. Lignocellulosic substances contribute to heterogeneity, complicating the analysis of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) and, subsequently, for methane production. Some of the substances contained in OFMSW are readily biodegradable, and others are not. This work analyses OFMSW from Mexico City and the methane production from its separate components. From OFMSW, nine fractions were visually identified and separated. Including bromatological and fibre analysis, the characterisation of OFMSW and its components was made to determine how the different substances influence methane production. Together, branches, dry leaves, fresh garden trimmings, unsorted wastes (mainly garden trimmings), kitchen paper, and waste vegetables represent 56 % of OFMSW in weight. Fruit waste and unsorted organics contribute to 60 % of the total methane production. Except for branches and dry leaves, methane production increases inversely with the content of lignocellulosic compounds. Animal waste, having the highest concentrations of proteins and lipids and the lowest in lignocellulosic substances, is characterised by the highest level of methane production. Fibre-rich fractions in OFMSW contributed with little or no methane production. Higher concentrations of lignocellulosic substances in the fractions resulted in lower methane production rates.
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Stuefer-Powell, Cindy, Patrick Shea, Laurie Hodges, and Garald Horst. "Impact of Pesticide Residues in Composted Lawn Waste Compost on Vegetable Crops." HortScience 31, no. 4 (August 1996): 669e—669. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.31.4.669e.
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To conserve space in the Lincoln city landfill, a program for composting urban yard waste was initiated in 1992. Analysis of the first year's compost showed pesticide residues, including chlordane, DDT, DDE, and pendimethalin. We are investigating the concerns of the City Health officials regarding the risk of returning the compost to an urban environment, including use as a soil amendment for garden crops. To determine background levels of the contaminants, a survey was conducted of foundation, lawn, and garden soils of Lincoln properties. Sampling was based on the age of the house: 1 to 24, 25 to 49, 50 to 74, and 75 to 100+ years with three samples taken from each foundation, lawn, and garden. Higher residues were found in the soils of the 25 to 100+ houses than were found in the compost. No pesticide residues were found in the soil from the 1- to 24-year-old houses, with the exception of foundation samples. Chlordane (523 ppb) and heptachlor (44 ppb) were detected in these samples. Greenhouse garden crop studies showed no adverse growth of tomato, petunia, marigold, or sweet corn. Root crops are being analyzed for bioaccumulation.
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EL-GHANI, Monier Abd, Reinhard BORNKAMM, Nadia EL-SAWAF, and Hamdiya TURKY. "Heterogeneity of Soil and Vegetation in the Urban Habitats of New Industrial Cities in the Desert Landscape of Egypt." Notulae Scientia Biologicae 7, no. 1 (March 20, 2015): 26–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.15835/nsb719433.
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The relationship between vegetation and soil supporting the habitats in 4 new industrial cities were assessed. Five main habitats were distinguished from inner city toward outskirts: lawns, home gardens, public gardens, waste lands and desert outskirts. After application of Twinspan, 26 vegetation groups were identified in the 5 recognized habitats, demonstrating that some groups are chatracteristic of a certain city, e.g. Asphodelus aestivus - Deverra tortuosa - Thymelaea hirsuta group was confined to the desert habitat of Burg El-Arab city; Thymelaea hirsuta - Linaria albifrons and Atriplex halimus - Atriplex lindleyi subsp. inflata - Suaeda vermiculata - Typha domingensis groups were found in the waste lands of Burg El-Arab city; Conyza bonariensis - Cynodon dactylon - Sonchus oleraceus group in the home garden habitat of 10th Ranadan city; Cynodon dactylon group in the lawns of Burg El-Arab city; Bassia indica - Plantago major group in the public gardens of Burg El-Arab city; Oxalis corniculata - Plantago lagopus group in the public gardens of 10th Ramadan city; Sonchus oleraceus - Cynodon dactylon and Dactyloctenium aegyptium - Leptochloa fusca - Phragmites australis groups in the public gardens of 6th October city. Silt, clay, organic matter, carbonates and carbon contents showed significant diffrences among the 5 habitats.
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Pecina, Vaclav, Martin Brtnicky, Marie Balkova, Jitka Hegrova, Martina Buckova, Tivadar Baltazar, Roman Licbinsky, and Maja Radziemska. "Assessment of Soil Contamination with Potentially Toxic Elements and Soil Ecotoxicity of Botanical Garden in Brno, Czech Republic: Are Urban Botanical Gardens More Polluted Than Urban Parks?" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 14 (July 17, 2021): 7622. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147622.
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Though botanical gardens are an important and widely visited component of urban green spaces (UGS) worldwide, their pollution is rarely studied. The aim of this study was to assess botanical garden soil contamination and ecotoxicity and to evaluate whether urban botanical gardens are more contaminated than urban parks. Soil assessments showed serious contamination with Cd, Pb and Zn, emitted predominantly by traffic, agrochemicals and past construction and demolition waste. The discovery of hazardous historical ecological burden in the UGS calls for the necessity of detailed surveys of such areas. Despite prevailing moderate-to-heavy contamination, the soil was only slightly ecotoxic. Maximum immobilisation inhibition of Daphnia magna reached 15%. Growth of Sinapis alba L. was predominantly stimulated (73%), and Desmodesmus subspicatus Chodat was exclusively stimulated, possibly due to soil alkalinity and fertiliser-related nutrients. The hypothesis of a higher contamination of urban botanical gardens compared to urban parks was confirmed. However, urban parks can face a greater risk of soil ecotoxicity, hypothetically due to decreased activity of soil organisms resulting from adverse soil conditions caused by active recreation. The results highlight the need for an increased focus on botanical and ornamental gardens when assessing and managing UGS as areas potentially more burdened with contamination.
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Kenneth-Obosi, O., I. O. Amao, H. A. Adeniyi, O. O. Alabi, O. C. Emmanuel, M. O. Effi, A. A. Adawa, M. E. Okafor, and L. O. Olajide-Taiwo. "Livestock production as an integral of home garden in Nigeria." Nigerian Journal of Animal Production 46, no. 2 (December 17, 2020): 295–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.51791/njap.v46i2.47.
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Globally, hunger and poverty are major challenges with number of household malnourished increasing daily. Conscious integration of the home gardens strategy into peri-urban and urban development can help to achieve food security. In this regard, a total of 412 questionnaires were administered to home garden owners around the National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT) in Ibadan (Southwest Nigeria), Mbato (Southeast Nigeria), Bagauda (Northwest Nigeria) and Dadinkowa (Northeast Nigeria). In all, 366 (88.8%) questionnaires were found suitable for analysis. The data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistical analytical tools. Majority of people involved in the practice of home gardening were male (78%) and young <50 years (53%), implying that they were capable of handling more tedious activities than the female and the elderly respectively. Land and house ownership were found to be the most important factor in home gardening. Goat (77.1%), sheep (58.7%) and local fowl (49.7%) were the dominant livestock in the areas investigated.Most of the livestock were fed with household waste and crop residues which ought to have caused great problem through microbial build up, while the animal wastes were usually incorporated into the soil to serve as soil amendments. Some of the livestock owners were also mindful of zoonosis.
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Kim, Ree Ho, Jinwoo Jeong, Sang Ho Lee, and Chae Sung Gee. "Use of Bauxite Minerals to Control Pollutant Outflow in Urban Areas." Materials Science Forum 510-511 (March 2006): 922–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.510-511.922.
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Enormous use of ground for various purposes in urban areas has led to disappearance of green-planted surfaces. Considering space constraints, planted roofs become one promising and stabilizing choice to improve amenity and reduce the thermal loads on the building’s shell. However, a critical issue for rooftop garden is the release of pollutants in urban runoff. Not only particles but also dissolved pollutants should be removed from building drainage because of their potential impact on water environment. To add functions for the control of pollutant outflow, bauxsite minerals made of red waste from alumina refineries were incorporated in the rooftop garden as a special soil. The minerals have high trapping capacities for trace metals and other soluble species. Moreover, they are easy to integrate with rooftop garden systems. Based on their equilibrium capacity for removing pollutants, an optimum amount of bauxsite minerals is suggested. The characteristics of rainwater runoff and pollutants release were compared for normal and modified rooftop garden in laboratory scale. As expected, the green roof system with the bauxsite layer reduces the concentration of heavy metals. The technique used in this study is also likely to be implemented in other green surfaces in housing complexes.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Urban garden waste"
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Nylén, John Henry, and Simon Román. "Produktion av biokol från urbant trädgårdsavfall : En komparativ livscykelanalys för Stockholmshem AB." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-298187.
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Biokol är en återstod från pyrolys av hållbar biomassa som exempelvis trädgårdsavfall och har många användningsområden. Produktion av biokol räknas ofta som en Negative Emission Technology som kan användas för att mildra klimatförändringarna och bidra till en hållbar utveckling. Detta projekt undersöker genom en förenklad komparativ livscykelanalys hur bostadsbolaget Stockholmshem AB på ett klimatvänligt och effektivt sätt kan producera biokol från sitt egetproducerade trädgårdsavfall. Tre potentiella tillvägagångssätt formulerades för hur företaget på olika skalor och med olika tekniker skulle kunna utföra en sådan produktion och sedan använda producerat biokol för plantering i sina bostadsområden. Även ett referensscenario baserat på nuvarande verksamhet formulerades och jämfördes med de tre potentiella scenarierna. För att underlätta utvärdering av effektivitet utfördes även en översiktlig kostnadsanalys av Stockholmshems utgifter kopplade till omhändertagande av trädgårdsavfall. Utvärderingen indikerade att Stockholmshem genom implementering av biokol i verksamheten kan minska sina utsläppsnivåer jämfört med befintligt system. Utsläppsminskningens storleksordning kan främst antas bero på vilken typ av produktionsteknik som används, där en högteknologisk pyrolysenhet leder till mest producerat biokol och maximal klimatprestanda. Kostnaderna för hantering av trädgårdsavfall kan potentiellt både minska och öka vid implementering av biokol i företagets verksamhet.Biochar is a product that is created through the pyrolysis of sustainably sourced biomass. The production of biochar is considered a negative emission technology and can be used to mitigate climate change and contribute to sustainable development. The aim of this project was to determine how Stockholmshem AB in an efficient and climate friendly way can produce biochar from the garden waste generated by their own activities. To determine this, an assessment was carried out using a simplified comparative life cycle assessment of three scenarios, which were differentiated by scale, for how Stockholmshem could produce biochar. The scenarios were also compared in relation to a reference scenario designed to mirror the company’s current management of garden waste, which relied on incineration for district heating. To furthermore assess the effectiveness of the scenarios, a simple costing analysis was executed as well as an uncertainty and sensitivity analysis. The assessment indicates that implementation of biochar in Stockholmshem’s operation in all scenarios results in reduced emissions compared to the reference scenario. An important factor for environmental performance was shown to be the scale of biochar production. A high-tech and large-scale pyrolysis unit both contributed to decreased emissions from pyrolysis and a larger amount of produced biochar which in turn led to more sequestrated carbon with further improvements in climate performance. In terms of economics, the most efficient way of producing biochar for the company can be assumed to involve internalized production due to reduced costs for waste disposal. Implementation of biochar production can potentially both lead to reduced and increased costs regarding disposal of garden waste for Stockholmshem.
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Conklin, Lorraine C. "Recycling and reusing a restaurant's waste : creating a sustainable small-scale urban farm." Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1355593.
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Urban sprawl, global warming and overused landfills are conditions around the world today, and while people are concerned about these issues they have few practical solutions to them. This creative project seeks to devise a way for a specific sector of business (restaurants), to have a practical way to help reduce global warming and waste while utilizing unused or under-used land in urban areas. While life cycle models are available that address such issues as these, very few case examples are actually in use in this country. Based on existing life cycle models, this project will seek to reuse the wastes from a restaurant and recycle them into a garden/greenhouse (called an urban farm throughout this paper) which will produce food for the restaurant. The three main waste categories from the restaurant to be looked at are the organic kitchen food wastes, water and the heat that is always being expelled from the kitchen while it is operation. Additional ways to make a restaurant more sustainable will also be given. This project will show what the benefits are when a sustainable system is in operation.Department of Landscape Architecture
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Randall, William Sanford. "How Methane Made the Mountain: The Material Ghost and the Technological Sublime in Methane Ghosts." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460722538.
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Kessler, Angelika. "Aspects socio-économiques d'un compost phytosanitaire issu des ordures appliqué dans l'agriculture périurbaine en Afrique de l'Ouest." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Landwirtschaftlich-Gärtnerische Fakultät, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/15087.
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Im EU finanzierten Projekt "Die Verwendung von kompostiertem Haushaltsmüll in der vorstädtischen Landwirtschaft von Westafrika als Pflanzenschutzmittel", das in Rufisque im Senegal, Conakry und Timbi Madîna in der Republik Guinea sowie Lomé und Tsévié im Togo von 1999 bis 2002 stattfand, wurden die Daten für diese Arbeit erhoben. Diese Orte sind hauptsächlich von Wolofs, Fulfulbe, Sussus und Ewes bewohnt. Ihre Größe variert zwischen 4 000 und 1,4 Mill. Einwohner. Es wurden städtische Gemüsebau- und vorstädtische Ackerbausysteme untersucht. Ziel der Arbeit ist die Einführung von Kompost als Pflanzenschutzmittel zu erleichtern. Dazu wurden Bereitschaften untersucht: die der städtischen Haushalte Biomüll zu sammeln und die der vorstädtischen Bauern Kompost aus Haushaltsmüll als Pflanzenschutzmittel einzusetzen. Dafür wurden standardisierte Befragungen von 1802 Bauern und 1775 Haushalten durchgeführt. Etwa 10 % dieser Antworten wurden in 18 logistischen Regressionsmodellen mit Interaktionen des 1. Grades analysiert. Den Modellen wurden die qualitativen Ergebnissen aus den standardisierten, halbstandardisierten und unstrukturierten Interviews sowie Beobachtungen und Einzelfallstudien gegenübergestellt. Daraus läßt sich schließen, dass es keine traditionellen Hemmnisse gegen Biomüllsammlung und -verarbeitung, sowie die Verwendung von Kompost aus Müll gibt. Wilde Deponien stören die Einwohner. Sie sind bereit sich finanziell an einer Müllsammlung zu beteiligen. Für die Mülltrennung brauchen sie zusätzliche, an Klima und Menge angepasste Mülltonnen. Die Haushalte wollen geringere Müllgebühren bezahlen, wenn sie Müll trennen. Müllsammen ist rentable. Eine transparente Buchführung der Müllgebühren ist unerlässlich für die Nachhaltigkeit. Für eine Kompoststation eignet sich am besten eine Kleinstadt mit vielen Müllproblemen und noch ohne Müllsammelorganisation sowie mit vielen Gemüsebauern mit einem hohen Krankheitsbewußtsein. Die Kompostherstellung ist sehr arbeitsintensiv und nur rentable, wenn der Kompost zu Pflanzenschutzmittelpreisen verkauft werden kann. Kompost ist in Westafrika bekannt. Die Verwendung von Kompost als Pflanzenschutzmittel gegen bodenbürtige Krankheiten ist eine Neuerung. Daher benötigt eine Kompoststation ein sehr wirksames Marketing.By the EU financed project called "Utilisation of composted waste from urban households in the peri-urban agriculture for plant protection purpose in West Africa" with took place in Rufisque in Senegal, Conakry and Timbi Madîna in the Republic of Guinea the same as Lomé and Tsévié in Togo from 1999 to 2002, the data which are the base of this study have been collected. These towns are mainly settled by Wolofs, Fulanis, Sussus and Ewes. The size of the towns varies from 4 000 to 1.4 mill inhabitants. Production systems of urban vegetable farmers as well as peri-urban rain fed farmers have been investigated. The objective was to analyse the willingness of household, to collect organic waste, and of farmers, to use composted household waste for plant protection, to facilitate the introduction of compost for phytosanitary purpose. Hence standardised interviews of 1802 farmers and 1775 households have been done. About 10 % of the answers have been standardised in a way which allowed analysing them in 18 models of logistic regression with the first level of interactions. The results of the models have been compared to the qualitative results of the standardised, the half standardised and the unstructured interviews as well as the observations and the case studies. We find out that: There are no traditional obstacles inhibiting the collection of organic waste, the processing and the use of compost. Wild waste heaps disturb the people. They are ready to participate financially on waste collection. For the separation of waste the households need bins adapted to the climate and to the amount of waste. Anyway households separating waste would like to pay reduced waste fees. The waste collection is actually a rentable economic activity. A conflict avoiding accountability for waste fees is essential for the long lasting of a waste collection organisation. An optimal place for a compost station is a small rural town with many waste problems, without an institutionalised waste collection and with many vegetable farmers aware of diseases. The production of compost is very labour-intensive and rentable only if the compost is sold on organic pesticide prices. Compost is well known in West Africa. The innovation would be the application of compost for pest treatment of soil related diseases. Therefore a compost station needs a very efficient marketing.
Books on the topic "Urban garden waste"
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James, Philip. The built environment. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827238.003.0002.
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Buildings are the dominant feature of urban environments and they are arranged in diverse patterns. Interwoven within and between buildings are a series of infrastructures which deliver materials and energy and remove the products of industrial processes and waste produced as a result of human activities. Urban form, the physical arrangement of elements within urban environments, is a determinant of the liveability of a city. Individual buildings are constructed to a range of designs. These are discussed along with a consideration of the position of private (domestic gardens) and public greenspace (for example, parks) within the wider urban form. Links between urban form and socio-economic status are discussed. Where there is greater wealth, there is a stronger focus on the quality of life and an association with higher levels of vegetation within the urban form.
Book chapters on the topic "Urban garden waste"
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Ribeiro, Alexandra Afonso, Livia Madureira, and Raquel Carvalho. "More urban gardens, less food waste." In The Role of Law in Governing Sustainability, 118–33. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003158837-11.
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"garden waste [n] [UK]." In Encyclopedic Dictionary of Landscape and Urban Planning, 384. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76435-9_5344.
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Suau, Cristian. "Reactivating Urban Voids Through Sensory and Pop-Up Design." In Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering, 534–58. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3637-6.ch023.
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This chapter reflects on the implementation of pop-up architecture and sensory gardens made with waste reuse in brownfields. The selected experiments, MOBILELAND© (2014-2016) and DOT TO DOT© (2017 onwards), investigate waste reuse as pop-up sensory reactivation of gap sites in Glasgow. Experiments explore constructive sensibilities embedded in material sensory by interlinking tangible place-making, sensory gardens, eco-design, and self-build solutions in public spaces. The cases underline design as sensory medium to effectively co-develop innovative environmental changes, societal challenges, and co-creation, including experiential outdoor learning and public engagement, throughout the reuse of waste applied in remaking by testing/piloting the C2C theoretical framework. Trials apply the principles of temporariness, portability, and sensory of waste as social value and material culture in cities. These live projects explore constructional and somatic sensibilities and critically investigate the cultural embodiment of material sensory by remaking.
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Emsley, John. "Landscape room: environmental cons, concerns and comments: An exhibition of molecules that stalk the world." In Molecules at an Exhibition. Oxford University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198502661.003.0010.
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A hundred years ago, if you talked about protecting the environment you meant preventing floods or forest fires. Homes and farms could be ruined and families wiped out by a flash flood, a surge tide, or a raging fire. Meanwhile in industrial regions the skies were polluted with fumes, smoke and smog, rivers were little more than open drains and slag was piled up in great heaps. People complained but there was little they could do, because their livelihoods depended on the very industries which were causing the pollution. Excesses were curbed, but change was painfully slow. Fifty years ago, when you spoke of protecting the environment you meant controlling urban sprawl and cleaning up the wastes of industry. The climate of opinion now favours quicker changes, and much has been achieved since then: slag heaps have been sculpted into grassy knolls, derelict sites have been demolished and turned into sport centres or superstores, rivers now support fish and wildlife abounds on their banks. The belching smoke and choking fogs of coal-burning industries are only memories. And while the air in cities is now fouled by traffic fumes, there are signs that this pollution too will disappear as cars become cleaner. People today have other environmental concerns. They want action taken on different kinds of pollution. It is not enough to pull down old factories, gas works and foundries and to turf over the site: we want the soil beneath to be decontaminated too, so that homes can be built there and children can play safely in gardens. People want power to be generated without causing acid rain. They want all rivers and lakes to be so clean that people can fish from them or swim in them. When it comes to breathing, we have little choice. The air we breathe comes with the neighbourhoods in which we live and work. Clearly, we have some control: we can avoid traffic fumes, and change the ventilation of the rooms we are in, but even so the mixture that we are taking in is still a cocktail of gases, some of which are not natural, and some of which may be hurting us.
Conference papers on the topic "Urban garden waste"
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Sgobbo, A. "Recycling, waste management and urban vegetable gardens." In WASTE MANAGEMENT 2016. Southampton UK: WIT Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/wm160071.
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Wukui, Wang. "Spatial density distribution computing and disposal site selection optimizing of garden-wastes in the urban area of Beijing." In 2011 International Conference on E-Business and E-Government (ICEE). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icebeg.2011.5885288.
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