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Fourth International Symposium on Green Chemistry for Environment, Health and Development (Green Chemistry), Kos Island, Greece, 24 - 26 September 2014, (Full Text)
Chemical fertilizers used today negatively affect environment and health of organisms. Chemical fertilizer applications create problems on soils such as salinization, heavy metal accumulation, nutrient imbalance, disruption of microorganism activity, eutrophication and nitrate accumulation in waters, emission of gasses that contain nitrogene and sulphur to air, greenhouse effect and etc. Applying organic conditioners as an alternative to chemical fertilizers is an environmentally-friendly approach. The first product that comes to mind when it comes to organic conditioners is compost.
In this study, compost from organic wastes in domestic setting was obtained by using red Californian worms (Eisenia foetida). Then, beneficialness of obtained compost was examined by performing tests for suitability for plants with this compost. It was observed that as the amount of compost used in compost-soil mixture in tests for suitability for plants increases, values for being beneficial to plants also increase. Also, it was observed that phosphorus ratio of obtained compost was high.