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Mixing Sodium-Chloride-Rich Food Waste Compost with Livestock Manure Composts Enhanced the Agronomic Performance of Leaf Lettuce

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  • Jun-Woo Yang

    (Department of Bio-Environmental Chemistry, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Korea
    Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Bioresources, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
    Authors contributed equally to this study and must be considered as co-first authors.)

  • Deogratius Luyima

    (Department of Bio-Environmental Chemistry, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Korea
    Authors contributed equally to this study and must be considered as co-first authors.)

  • Seong-Jin Park

    (Soil and Fertilizer Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA, Jeonju-si 55365, Korea)

  • Seong-Heon Kim

    (Soil and Fertilizer Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, RDA, Jeonju-si 55365, Korea)

  • Taek-Keun Oh

    (Department of Bio-Environmental Chemistry, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Korea)

Abstract

Food waste generated at the consumer level constitutes a gigantic portion of the total amount of food wasted/lost and valorisation is touted as the most sustainable way of managing the generated waste. While food waste valorisation encompasses several methods, composting is the cheapest technique that can produce stabilised carbon-rich soil amendments. The food waste generated at the consumer level, however, is laden with sodium chloride. The compost produced from such waste has the potential of inducing saline and or sodic conditions in the soil, resultantly impeding proper crop growth and yield. Due to the scarcity of plausible means of eradicating sodium chloride from the food waste before composting, the idea of mixing the composted food waste with other low sodium chloride-containing composts to produce a food waste compost-containing amalgam with a high fertiliser potential was mulled in this study. The study then assessed the effects of mixing sodium-chloride-rich food waste compost with the nutritious and low sodium chloride-containing livestock manure composts on the yield and quality of leaf lettuce. Mixing food waste compost with livestock manure composts in the right proportions created mixed composts that produced a higher lettuce yield than both the pure livestock manure composts and food waste compost. The mixed composts also produced leaf lettuce with higher chlorophyll content and, thus, better marketability and lower nitrate content (with higher health value) than the pure livestock manure composts.

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  • Jun-Woo Yang & Deogratius Luyima & Seong-Jin Park & Seong-Heon Kim & Taek-Keun Oh, 2021. "Mixing Sodium-Chloride-Rich Food Waste Compost with Livestock Manure Composts Enhanced the Agronomic Performance of Leaf Lettuce," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(23), pages 1-15, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:13:y:2021:i:23:p:13223-:d:691141
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    1. Jon T. Schroeder & Ava L. Labuzetta & Thomas A. Trabold, 2020. "Assessment of Dehydration as a Commercial-Scale Food Waste Valorization Strategy," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(15), pages 1-13, July.
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