title: [Health and hygiene aspects of the production of high-quality compost].
abstract: The present national and international trends about waste management favour recycling and recovery of waste either as materials or as energy. Therefore, it can be supposed that recycling activities of materials as for example the composting of urban waste organic fraction will be more and more encouraged in the future. Nevertheless, if we intend really to develop a market of recycling and recovery of waste, the quality of products obtained must be especially considered. As regards the compost, these problems have taken a great importance in the last years, since only high quality compost finds utilization in agriculture. In this paper, we investigate the procedure to carry out in order to obtain a compost of high quality either from a chemical, microbiological or technological point of view, by examining particularly the effects on compost quality, in consequence of separation of some specific waste streams at source.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio di Igiene Ambientale, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Roma.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Musmeci
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Gucci
mesh_terms: D000382:Agricultural Workers' Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D000383:Agriculture / Q000379:methods*; D000397:Air Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission; D004391:Dust; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D019216:Metals, Heavy / Q000032:analysis; D009181:Mycoses / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission; D009812:Odorants; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D012423:Rural Health; D012988:Soil Microbiology; D012989:Soil Pollutants / Q000032:analysis; D014481:United States; D014484:United States Environmental Protection Agency; D014504:Urban Health
chemical_list: D004391:Dust; D019216:Metals, Heavy; D012989:Soil Pollutants
vernacular_title: Aspetti igienico-sanitari per la produzione di compost di elevata qualità.