Abstract

  The report is about developing an environmentally sustainable system to manage solid waste from the 2- and 3-phase olive oil mill extraction processes. The olive industry has been expanding at the rate of about 12% per annum over recent years. This significant increase in fruit production will result in vast quantities of solid and liquid wastes generated to the detriment of the environment. The industry is therefore faced with the challenge to manage these wastes in order to achieve sustainable production in a clean environment. The research work reported here is important because it provides the industry with a tool to recycle processed oil mill waste to improve the health of the crop and the status of the soil.

KeywordsWastes; Olive Production; Environmental Problems

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Citation

Citation: Serkan Sezen. “Possibilities of Using the Wastes from Olive Production Facilities in Soil Improvement".Acta Scientific Agriculture 4.1 (2020): 36-41.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2020 Serkan Sezen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.