Waste to Resources: Unlocking Potential Applications of Agricultural Waste is a comprehensive textbook that explores different types of agricultural wase, their sources and composition, and provides a deep understanding of the waste landscape within agriculture. Growing environmental concerns create a need to deploy sustainable processes, particularly within agriculture. This books sheds light on waste management techniques, covering both theory and practice, and pushes for the re-framing of agricultural waste as a valuable resource.
This book considers the latest research and regulatory considerations surrounding the topic of agricultural waste to give a well-rounded understanding of the subject. The introductory chapters provide an overview of agricultural waste in the form of crop residues, livestock waste, pesticides, and chemical waste, and describe the environmental implications of the categories of waste. The subsequent chapters examine waste management techniques in agriculture, including traditional waste management and integrated waste management systems. They tackle using agricultural waste as a resource by harnessing biogas, nutrient recovery and recycling, and composting and vermicomposting. The last chapter explores the regulatory and policy issues related to waste management and potential agricultural waste management practices that can contribute to a sustainable agricultural system.
This textbook is an essential resource for upper-level undergraduate students in environmental science and agricultural biology, and researchers and academics engaging with agricultural waste management in other disciplines. It is also useful for professionals in the field of agricultural waste management, including agricultural practitioners and environmental consultants. This textbook is accompanied by PowerPoint slides and case studies as additional resources for students and instructors.
Part 1: Understanding Agricultural and Food Wastes
1. Beyond the harvest: The origins and diversity of crop residues and byproducts
2. Livestock waste: Sources, types and composition
3. Pesticide and chemical waste: Exploring the sources, composition, and characteristics
4. Nutrient, fertilizer, and plastic waste in agriculture sector
5. Food processing waste: understanding the sources, composition, and characteristics
6. Water footprints of global agriculture sector
Part 2: Environmental Impact and Ecological Considerations
7. The ecological footprint of agricultural waste: Pollution and greenhouse gas
8. Emissions from fertile to fragile: Understanding soil degradation and erosion due to agricultural waste
9. Pyrethroids contamination: Understanding the impacts on freshwater invertebrates and fish
10. The ecological toll: Biodiversity loss and habitat degradation caused by agricultural waste
11. The hidden dangers: Agricultural waste and its impact on human health
Part 3: Waste management technologies for waste mitigation
12. Traditional and modern waste management technologies: Challenges and limitations
13. Integrated Waste Management Systems: Holistic Approaches to Waste Management in Agriculture
14. Anaerobic Digestion of Waste for Sustainable Energy Production: Principles, applications, and sustainable challenges
15. Waste-to-energy technologies: Harnessing biogas from agricultural waste
16. Industrial applications of agricultural waste for value added products
17. Nanotechnology and agro-industrial wastes as a sustainable and future approach in agricultural applications
Part 4: Waste valorisation and resource utilisation
18. Nutrient recovery and recycling: Extracting and reusing nutrients from agricultural waste
19. Transforming waste into worth: Exploring Value-added products from Agricultural waste
20. Agricultural waste as a renewable resource: Biomass and biofuel production
21. Vermicomposting for waste decomposition and soil health improvement: Risk and challenges
22. Residue to rations: Enhancing livestock nutrition with agricultural byproducts
23. Biochar production: Utilizing waste for carbon sequestration and soil improvement
24. Sustainable solutions: Utilizing agricultural waste for bioplastics and biofibers
25. Waste not, mushroom lots: Innovative cultivation methods with agricultural residues
Part 5: Regulatory and Policy Frameworks for Sustainable Waste Management
26. Policies and strategies to promote sustainable agricultural waste management practices
27. Emerging Trends and Future Prospects in Agricultural Waste Management
28. Potential agricultural waste management practices to contribute to a sustainable and circular agricultural system
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