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ReviewHeliyon2020

Microbes as vital additives for solid waste composting.

Mansi Rastogi, Meenakshi Nandal, Babita Khosla

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Review in Heliyon, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Physicochemical, microbial, and microbiome dynamics in winery waste composting.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2025
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  8. Inoculation of the fungi-staticFrontiers in microbiology · 2025
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  10. Seasonal and diurnal changes of pCOScientific reports · 2024
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  16. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  19. Potential of windrow food and green waste composting in Tunisia.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Mansi RastogiDepartment of Environmental Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India.
Meenakshi NandalDepartment of Environmental Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India.
Babita KhoslaDepartment of Environmental Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Composting is a natural process that stems through microbial succession, marking the degradation and stabilization of organic matter present in waste. The use of microbial additives during composting is considered highly efficient, likely to enhance the production of different enzymes resulting in better rate of waste degradation. In lesser developed countries, composting has emerged as a vital technology to recycle the biodegradable waste while generating a useful product. Depending on the composition of the waste material, it can either directly undergo composting or homogenized prior to secondary waste treatment methods such as landfilling. However, a relatively expensive downstream handling all along is a main hurdle towards economics of the process. Although basic methodology and recent approaches are known in crucial aspects of the process through various reviews, exploring the behavior of effective microbial additives will be resourceful. In this review, to fill in the gap, studies related to microbial composting of municipal solid and food waste were acknowledged. Here in, factors that could slow down the composting process and affect the compost quality were addressed. Lastly, the review pictured a positive simulation and stated how excellent results, can be achieved by microbial additives during composting.

Indexed as

AdditivesCompostingEffective microbesEnvironmental healthEnvironmental managementEnvironmental pollutionEnvironmental risk assessmentEnvironmental scienceEnvironmental toxicologyFood wasteMunicipal solid waste

Identifiers

PMID32095647
PMCPMC7033521

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