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Kinetic assessment of aerobic composting of flower waste generated from temple in Jammu, India: a lab-scale experimental study

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In India, flowers are widely used as an offering to Deities at religious places. Flower waste (FW) is rich in several nutrients and organic matter, therefore, can be utilized for the production of organic compost. This study investigated the potential of temple FW along with cow dung (CD) for the production of compost through aerobic valorization (AV) for 60 days. The FW was collected from the Mahan Shiv Parvati temple of Jammu, India. For this, laboratory-scale AV was done using a 1:3 mixture of FW and CD in a 20 kg capacity bin facilitated with aeration. The result showed that there was a significant increase (P < 0.5) in the nutrient values of formulated compost in terms of total Kjeldahl’s nitrogen (TKN: 63.70%), P2O5 (75.65%), K2O (86.27%), and organic carbon (OC: 52.41%), respectively. Besides this, the first-order reaction model described the maximum rate constants of TKN, P2O5, K2O, and OC as 0.0085, 0.0118, 0.016, and 0.0057% dw/day with an acceptable range of model fitness (R2 > 0.8805), respectively. This study showed that the AV process of FW and CD mixture gave compost of good quality which presents a sustainable waste management approach.

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The authors are grateful to the Department of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Jammu, Samba, Jammu and Kashmir, India for providing necessary experimental equipment and also the management committee of Mahan Shiv Parvati Temple for allowing us to conduct this research.

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  1. Agro-Ecology and Pollution Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology and Environmental Science, Gurukula Kangri (Deemed To Be University), Haridwar, 249404, Uttarakhand, India

    Sonika Kumari, Vinod Kumar & Pankaj Kumar

  2. Department of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Jammu, Rahya-Suchani, Bagla , Samba, 181143, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Sonika Kumari & Richa Kothari

  3. School of Energy Management, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Kakryal, Katra, 182320, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    V. V. Tyagi

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Kumari, S., Kothari, R., Kumar, V. et al. Kinetic assessment of aerobic composting of flower waste generated from temple in Jammu, India: a lab-scale experimental study. Environmental Sustainability 4, 393–400 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42398-021-00179-5

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