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The role of biochar in organic waste composting and soil improvement: A review
Abstract
Large amounts of organic wastes, which pose a severe threat to the environment, can be thermally pyrolyzed to produce biochar. Biochar has many potential uses owing to its unique physicochemical properties and attracts increasing attentions. Therefore, this review focuses on the agronomic functions of biochar used as compost additives and soil amendments. As a compost additive, biochar provides multiple benefits including improving composting performance and humification process, enhancing microbial activities, reducing greenhouse gas and NH4 emissions, immobilizing heavy metals and organic pollutants. As a soil amendment, biochar shows a good performance in improving soil properties and plant growth, alleviating drought and salinity stresses, interacting with heavy metals and organic pollutants and changing their fate of being uptaken from soils to plants. Furthermore, combined application of biochar and compost shows a good performance and a high agricultural value when applied to soils. Objectively and undeniably, there are still negative or ineffective cases of biochar amendment on crop yield and heavy metal immobilization, which is worthy of further attention. The medium-long term field monitoring of biochar-specific agricultural functions, as well as the exploration of wider sources for biochar feedstocks, are still needed.
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- Authors
- Guo, X.-X., Liu, H.-T., & Zhang, J.
- Venue
- Waste Management
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-02
- Volume
- 102
- Pages
- 884-899
- ISSN
- 0956-053X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2995821978
- Cited by
- 441
- References
- 171
- FWCI
- 34.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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