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Communities of arthropods associated with the composting process of the organic solid waste produced in a landfill in Brazil

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Composting is a process recommended as a way to recycle the organic part of the solid waste in which several micro and macroorganisms act as decomposers of the organic matter, in a process that takes around 120 days and faces roughly three different phases. Because we do not know the community of arthropods associated with the compost produced in one of the biggest landfills placed in Brazil, here we collected and identified the community of arthropods present in each phase of the organic compost. Our hypothesis is that the abundance and diversity of arthropods are different within each phase of the compost and we hope to find particular groups of arthropods that can be used as indicator of specific phases. In total, we identified the taxa of 1204 arthropods (insects, arachnidan and diplopods). We found that diversity and abundancy of arthropods were indeed different for each maturation phase of the compost, but we did not find families that are good indicators of each phase. In addition, to be certain about the safety of the compost produced, we investigated the presence of microorganisms in the final product and we found considerable levels of Escherichia coli and Enterococcus faecalis in some samples. Finally, we argue that the presence of these macro and microorganisms during the process may be beneficial or harmful. Since their presence decreased greatly by the end of the process, we acknowledge that composting works efficiently as a way to recycle the organic part of the waste generated in Brazil.

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We thank all workers from Waste Treatment and Final Disposal Department of Belo Horizonte for their technical assistance and to professor Alvaro Eiras from Department of Parasitology at Federal University of Minas Gerais for his valuable comments during execution of the experiments.

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  1. Urban Cleansing Authority, Waste Treatment and Final Disposal Department of Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Livia Maria Silva Ataíde, Sofia Regina Lopes, Cícero A. A. Catapreta & Karla G. Tavares

  2. Department of Entomology, Federal University of Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Livia Maria Silva Ataíde

  3. Department of Parasitology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Marcelo Carvalho Resende

  4. Community University of Chapecó Region, Chapecó, Santa Catarina, Brazil

    Daniel Albeny Simões

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation and data collection were performed by Livia Maria Silva Ataide and Sofia Regina Lopes. Analysis of the data was performed by Livia Maria Silva Ataide. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Livia Maria Silva Ataide and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Ataíde, L.M.S., Resende, M.C., Lopes, S.R. et al. Communities of arthropods associated with the composting process of the organic solid waste produced in a landfill in Brazil. Environ Monit Assess 192, 492 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-020-08467-z

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