Part IV General Organic/Inorganic and Chemical Waste
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Vermicomposts Are Biologically Different: Microbial
and Functional Diversity of Green Vermicomposts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
María Gómez-Brandón, Manuel Aira, and Jorge Domínguez
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Vermicomposting Treatment of Fruit and Vegetable Waste
and the Effect of the Addition of Excess Activated Sludge . . . . . . . . 141
Wenjiao Li, Sartaj Ahmad Bhat, Yongfen Wei, and Fusheng Li
10 Eco-management of Industrial Organic Wastes Through the
Modified Innovative Vermicomposting Process: A Sustainable
Approach in Tropical Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Ram Kumar Ganguly and Susanta Kumar Chakraborty
11 Growth and Reproductive Biology of Earthworms in Organic
Waste Breakdown Under the Indian Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Priyasankar Chaudhuri and Susmita Debnath
12 Vermicomposting of Parthenium hysterophorus L.: A Solution
to Weed Menace in Terrestrial Ecosystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Deepshikha Sharma and Anu Bala Chowdhary
13 Evaluating Method of Mica Waste Application in Earthworm
Cast-Treated Soil for Enhancing Potassium Availability to the
Plants with Reference to Tea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Prabhat Pramanik, Chayanika Kalita, Pallabi Kalita, and Anup Jyoti
Goswami
14 PGPR and Earthworm-Assisted Phytoremediation of Heavy
Metals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Pooja Sharma, Palak Bakshi, Jaspreet Kour, Arun Dev Singh,
Shalini Dhiman, Pardeep Kumar, Ibrahim, Ashutosh Sharma,
Bilal Ahmad Mir, and Renu Bhardwaj
15 Waste Management Practices and Their Impact on Earthworms . . 247
Harsimran Kaur, Puttaganti Vijaya, and Suman Sharma
16 Toxicity and Histopathological Effect of Distillery Industrial
Sludge on the Earthworm Eudrilus eugeniae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Susila Sugumar, Selvakumar Muniraj, Tamilselvi Duraisamy,
Ramarajan Selvam, and Vasanthy Muthunarayanan
17 Earthworm-Assisted Amelioration of Thermal Ash . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Bhawana Sohal and Adarsh Pal Vig
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Vermicomposts Are Biologically Different: Microbial
and Functional Diversity of Green Vermicomposts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
María Gómez-Brandón, Manuel Aira, and Jorge Domínguez
9
Vermicomposting Treatment of Fruit and Vegetable Waste
and the Effect of the Addition of Excess Activated Sludge . . . . . . . . 141
Wenjiao Li, Sartaj Ahmad Bhat, Yongfen Wei, and Fusheng Li
10 Eco-management of Industrial Organic Wastes Through the
Modified Innovative Vermicomposting Process: A Sustainable
Approach in Tropical Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Ram Kumar Ganguly and Susanta Kumar Chakraborty
11 Growth and Reproductive Biology of Earthworms in Organic
Waste Breakdown Under the Indian Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Priyasankar Chaudhuri and Susmita Debnath
12 Vermicomposting of Parthenium hysterophorus L.: A Solution
to Weed Menace in Terrestrial Ecosystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Deepshikha Sharma and Anu Bala Chowdhary
13 Evaluating Method of Mica Waste Application in Earthworm
Cast-Treated Soil for Enhancing Potassium Availability to the
Plants with Reference to Tea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Prabhat Pramanik, Chayanika Kalita, Pallabi Kalita, and Anup Jyoti
Goswami
14 PGPR and Earthworm-Assisted Phytoremediation of Heavy
Metals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Pooja Sharma, Palak Bakshi, Jaspreet Kour, Arun Dev Singh,
Shalini Dhiman, Pardeep Kumar, Ibrahim, Ashutosh Sharma,
Bilal Ahmad Mir, and Renu Bhardwaj
15 Waste Management Practices and Their Impact on Earthworms . . 247
Harsimran Kaur, Puttaganti Vijaya, and Suman Sharma
16 Toxicity and Histopathological Effect of Distillery Industrial
Sludge on the Earthworm Eudrilus eugeniae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Susila Sugumar, Selvakumar Muniraj, Tamilselvi Duraisamy,
Ramarajan Selvam, and Vasanthy Muthunarayanan
17 Earthworm-Assisted Amelioration of Thermal Ash . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Bhawana Sohal and Adarsh Pal Vig
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