In the field of environmental protection and conversion of waste into compost, I am looking for a method that can reduce or eliminate leachate and eliminate its odor so that it can be easily used in parks and green spaces.
@ Mohammad, you may get rid of bad smell if you regularly turn the municipal waste during composting and add some fluffy materials like dry leaves or dry grass. To reduce or eliminate the amount of leachate you may use wet oxidation processes to oxidize organic compounds.
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Is it possible to reduce leachate and remove waste from municipal waste by creating vacuum conditions and increasing the temperature?
A properly balanced compost pile should not smell bad. Compost should smell like dirt and if it does not, there is something wrong and your compost pile is not properly heating up and breaking down the organic material.
If your compost smells bad, this is an indication that something in the balance of your compost pile is off. The steps to composting are designed to help break down your organic material faster and, a side effect of this is, to stop compost from smelling bad. Things like too many greens (nitrogen material), too little aeration, too much moisture and not being mixed well can cause a compost pile to smell bad.
Dear Mohammad,
Perhaps you will find some of the information in the attached useful. Good luck!
- Peter
Dear Mohammad,
The most common cause of bad smell during composting is existence of anaerobic condition. This situation is generally created by the presence of excess moisture. In your case, it is indicated by the occurrence of high amount of leachate.Some of our friends have already suggested several useful measures to overcome the problem. Addition of water absorbing materials like dry leaves, straws etc is likely to give better result. However, if your waste materials contain too high amount of water, you need to reduce them before using for composting.In addition, frequent turning of the substrate helps to add oxygen in the materials. These are a few simple and easily adoptale techniques to reduce the leachate amount and foul odor.
Dear Mohammad,
The most common cause of bad smell during composting is existence of anaerobic condition. This situation is generally created by the presence of excess moisture. In your case, it is indicated by the occurrence of high amount of leachate.Some of our friends have already suggested several useful measures to overcome the problem. Addition of water absorbing materials like dry leaves, straws etc is likely to give better result. However, if your waste materials contain too high amount of water, you need to reduce them before using for composting.In addition, frequent turning of the substrate helps to add oxygen in the materials. These are a few simple and easily adoptale techniques to reduce the leachate amount and foul odor.
Dear Mohammad,
The most common cause of bad smell during composting is existence of anaerobic condition. This situation is generally created by the presence of excess moisture. In your case, it is indicated by the occurrence of high amount of leachate.Some of our friends have already suggested several useful measures to overcome the problem. Addition of water absorbing materials like dry leaves, straws etc is likely to give better result. However, if your waste materials contain too high amount of water, you need to reduce them before using for composting.In addition, frequent turning of the substrate helps to add oxygen in the materials. These are a few simple and easily adoptale techniques to reduce the leachate amount and foul odor.
Dear Mohammad,
The most common cause of bad smell during composting is existence
of anaerobic condition. This situation is generally created by the presence of excess moisture. In your case, it is indicated by the occurrence of high amount of leachate.Some of our friends have already suggested several useful measures to overcome the problem. Addition of water absorbing materials like dry leaves, straws etc is likely to give better result. However, if your waste materials contain too high amount of water, you need to reduce them before using for composting.In addition, frequent turning of the substrate helps to add oxygen in the materials. These are a few simple and easily adoptale techniques to reduce the leachate amount and foul odor.
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Dear Chattopadhyay
Hello, do you think that if we can overcome this problem by creating vacuum conditions on the one hand and also increasing the temperature? what do you think ? I think if a vacuum conditions arise then the anaerobic microbes are inactivated and the leachate evaporates at a lower temperature. Of course, this is a hypothesis and can be put into practice. I believe that vacuum conditions may be able to neutralize the effect of odor.
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