Agriculture Wastes
Agriculture on all levels produces a lot of wastes from manure to straw. This is a rich resource that can be tapped. Successful disposal or recyling these wastes is critical to agriculture becoming a sustainable technology. (RDC 4/26/2011)
“Zero waste agriculture is a type of sustainable agriculture which optimizes use of the five natural kingdoms, i.e. plants, animals, bacteria, fungi and algae, to produce biodiverse-food, energy and nutrients in a synergistic integrated cycle of profit making processes where the waste of each process becomes the feedstock for another process.” (Wikipedia, Zero Waste Agriculture, 4/26/2011)
Recent Journal Articles
Hybridized Biocomposites from Agro-Wastes: Mechanical, Physical and Thermal Characterization
(49-58) Journal of Polymers and the Environment 19 #1 (2011)
Bhat et al of the Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia, prepared hybridized plywood using 250 and 450 g/m2 of urea formaldehyde (UF) as gluing agent and agricultural wastes, oil palm trunk (OPT) veneer and oil palm empty fruit bunch (EFB) mat . (RDC 4/22/2011)