Earthworm Technology in Organic Waste Management: Recent Trends and Advances

Earthworm Technology in Organic Waste Management: Recent Trends and Advances is a suitable contribution to the Waste And The Environment: Underlying Burdens And Management Strategies series that will be helpful in classifying and broadly addressing assessment, mitigation, and management of organic wastes by employing earthworms. In addition, it will also provide a summary of the latest findings on emerging pollution-related issues in organic wastes, their sustainable management, and future perspectives in a single concise volume.

The book covers recent trends and development in the organic waste management, including the use of earthworms in municipal and industrial waste management, the role of earthworms in vermifiltration/vermiwash and of vermicompost in growth of crops, along with the potential of earthworms in the remediation of emerging contaminants. This includes antibiotic resistance genes, heavy metals, pesticides, microplastics, and other emerging pollutants that are not covered in-depth in previously published titles.