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Composting of Wood Waste Materials Generated from the Furniture Industry in Portugal

dc.contributor.authorDinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-18T13:11:03Z
dc.date.available2019-09-18T13:11:03Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractOne of the biggest challenges that the furniture industries have to overcome is the management of wood waste that results from their production processes. The production process of the furniture industry generates significant amounts of wood waste that is almost always sent to a municipal landfill for disposal. Moreover, this process causes costs to the industries that result from fees which are charged for transport and for the disposal of the residues on landfills. Thus, to decrease the costs and to reduce the proportion of wood waste destined to a landfill, the management of the furniture industry must considerer wood waste as a resource, rather than a problem. For that purpose there are many processes of recycling and reutilization of wood waste, including composting. Composting is an aerobic biological decomposition process that converts biodegradable solid organic matter, as wood, into a stable humus material. The material that results from the process of composting can be, for example, used as a fertilizer that, among other benefits, can improve the characteristics of soil (porosity, ability to retain water, etc.) and can act as an agent for prevention of land degradation. In this article we study the role that the composting of wood waste materials generated from the furniture industry could have in the Portuguese context and we analyze if the process of wood waste composting could be an efficient way of treatment of the residues.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationAPA: Dinis, M. A. P. (2011). Composting of Wood Waste Materials Generated from the Furniture Industry in Portugal. In F. C. Jorge (Ed.), Minimizing the Environmental Impact of the Forest Products Industries (pp. 77-81). Porto: Fernando Pessoa University Editions.pt_PT
dc.identifier.isbn978-989-643-083-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10284/7946
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherFernando Pessoa University Editionspt_PT
dc.titleComposting of Wood Waste Materials Generated from the Furniture Industry in Portugalpt_PT
dc.typebook part
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oaire.citation.endPage81pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage77pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleMinimizing the Environmental Impact of the Forest Products Industriespt_PT
person.familyNameDinis
person.givenNameMaria Alzira Pimenta
person.identifier493603
person.identifier.ciencia-id4710-147D-FDAF
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-2198-6740
person.identifier.ridF-3309-2011
person.identifier.scopus-author-id55539804000
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