Our results showed that in comparison to organic wastes, mineral wastes contained a low available nutrient content which reduces compost quality.
However, both the wastes contained a small amount of yeast and moderate to high amount of LAB.
Most of these wastes are left unutilized or untreated, which caused adverse effect on environment as well as human and animal health but the composition of these wastes contains a large number of organic compound that produced a variety of value-added products and also reduced the cost of production as described in Table 1.
Radioactive waste containing a few grams of plutonium (Pu) was disposed between 1960 and 1968 in trenches at the Little Forest Burial Ground (LFBG), near Sydney, Australia.
According to the EPA, the waste contained a long list of various metals, including arsenic, copper, lead and mercury.
Human waste contains a great deal of nitrogen, and traditional sewage treatment has not included removal of the nitrogen, said Mark Tedesco, director of the Environmental Protection Agency's Long Island Sound office.
Radioactive waste contains a mixture of short-lived and long-lived nuclides, as well as non-radioactive nuclides.
E-waste contains a vast number of hazardous chemicals including lead, cadmium, mercury, nickel, barium, and lithium, as well as persistent organic pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and brominated flame retardants (Cyranek and Silva 2010; Lundgren 2012; UNEP 2010; WHO 2010c).
An article on page 28 of The Times Magazine today, about the underground storage of nuclear waste, contains an outdated reference to the deadline for a Federal judge's ruling on the Energy Department's plans to bury plutonium waste at a New Mexico site.
OMW is a critical problem; this waste contains an enormous supply of organic matter, COD between 40 and 210 g.
