Agricultural Recycling of Sewage Sludge and the Environment

by Ali Smith

Sewage sludge application to land is the principal way of deriving a beneficial use for sludge by recycling plant nutrients and organic matter for crop production. It is becoming ever more important as other options for the disposal of sewage sludge are diminishing. Agricultural application also provides a cost-effective method of sludge disposal, but it is essential that sludge recycling in agriculture is regulated to minimize potential environmental...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851989802
• ISBN13: 9780851989808
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages