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ORGANIC PLANT AND ANIMAL WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Authors: Ciupercă R., Lazăr G., Popa L., Nedelcu A., Ştefan V., Zaica A., Petcu A.
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The paper presents some theoretical and practical considerations related to environmental management of plant and animal waste by aerobic composting, this being the most effective way of treating waste from agricultural activities.
Treatment of this waste by composting having a deep impact both economically, on one hand, compost being a very good and valuable organic fertilizer used in crop production, greenhouses and solariums and on the environment, on the other hand, by reducing the impact on main negative environmental factors (air, water, soil).
Basically, four methods of composting are known, classified by location and aeration method, as follows:
- passive open composting heap;
- stack composting in the platform with the use of technical reshuffling equipment for ventilation;
- composting in aerated static stacks, using the culverts or pipes;
- composting in container.
Ecological waste management system, subject of this paper, uses static stacks method, using an aeration system consisting of culverts and pipes, integrated in composting platform, and aeration system is powered by a photovoltaic system.