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THE INFLUENCE OF RED WORMS (E. FOETIDA) ON COMPOST’S FERTILIZING PROPERTIES
 
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Institute of Environmental Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Skłodowskiej-Curie Str. 34, 41-819 Zabrze, Poland
 
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Opole University, Department of Land Protection, Oleska Str. 22, 45-052 Opole, Poland
 
 
Publication date: 2014-04-04
 
 
J. Ecol. Eng. 2014; 15(2):67-72
 
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Composting is becoming a more and more common way of biodegradable waste disposal. Composts should be characterized by high content of nutrients and low amount of pollutants. Vermicompost is a compost produced by overpopulated culture of earthworm Eisenia foetida (Savigny 1826). World scientific literature states that vermicompost has a high fertilizing value which often exceeds such value of conventional composts. The results showed that vermicompost has a much higher fertilizing value than the compost produced by the traditional pile method. However, prism vermicompost created with the participation of a less concentrated population of earthworms has an intermediate value as a fertilizer (nitrogen and heavy metals), it could be assessed as a lower value product due to the lower content of potassium and phosphorus than the material obtained without earthworms.
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