Organic Fertilizers
Naturally-occuring nutrients that improve soil quality without the mix of synthetic chemicals. Peat moss or green manure are examples of naturally-occuring fertilizers.
fertilizer grade
The guaranteed minimum analysis in percent of the major plant nutrient elements contained in a fertilizer material or in a mixed fertilizer.
fertilizer
Substance applied to soil or hydroponic systems for improving the root nutrition of plants with the aim of increasing crop yields and (or) controlling production.
fetal period
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Fertilizer: Plant food applied to the soil for plants to use for nourishment and growth.
Fiber: Plant or animal products used to make clothing, paper, homes, and furniture; e.g. cotton, timber, and wool.
Fertilizer
Materials, including nitrogen and phosphorus that provide nutrients for plants.
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fertilizer Any substance, like manure, used to enrich the soil through the addition of nutrients that support crop production.
fertilizers. Leaching may occur in farming areas, feedlots,
and landfills, and may result in hazardous substances
entering surface water, ground water, or soil.
Plant nutrient and fertilizer that enters water supply sources from fertilizers, animal feed lots, manures, sewage, septic systems, industrial wastewaters, sanitary landfills, and garbage dumps.
Nitric Oxide ...
Synthetic chemicals (pesticide and fertilizers) used in agricultural production.
air binding. A situation where air enters the filter media. Air is harmful to both the filtration and backwash processes.
But properly it means food grown without chemical pesticides or chemical fertilizers. ozone aka O₃ . An energetic form of oxygen O₂ . It is formed when a spark passes though the air.
Organic flowers are available, as are flower arrangements that are not organic but whose growers minimize their use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Organic cotton clothing and bedding are also making rapid gains in popularity.
Compost - Process by which food scraps from a home or business are disposed of naturally to produce toxin-free and nutrient-rich fertilizer for gardening and other uses.
While many people spent months hosing and wiping oil from the beaches, scientists studying bioremediation as an alternative to physical cleanup found that when the beach was sprayed with fertilizer (plenty of Nitrogen and a balance of other ...
SOIL/SITE MANAGEMENT - Fertilizer
Forest are very efficient at cycling nutrients from the soil to the plant, to the leaves, and back to the soil, therefore forest fertilization occurs on a relatively small percentage of the total forest.
Organic Food: (From the USDA) Food produced without: antibiotics; growth hormones; most conventional pesticides; petroleum- based fertilizers or sewage sludge-based fertilizers; bioengineering; or ionizing radiation.
compost : Decomposed organic material that is produced when bacteria in soil break down garbage and biodegradable trash, making organic fertilizer. Making compost requires turning and mixing and exposing the materials to air.
In practice, farmers build up nutrients in the soil using compost, agricultural wastes, and cover crops instead of synthetically derived fertilizers to increase productivity, rotate crops, weed mechanically, ...
produced without the use of synthetic fertilizers or pesticides and with farming techniques that protect soil quality, minimize erosion and actively prevent the contamination of air, land and water.
Pollution sources include smelter fumes and dust, some incineration products, fertilizer, municipal wastewater and sludge discharges. It is also an industrial byproduct of the manufacturing of zinc, copper and lead.
Inorganic form of nitrogen. An important plant nutrient and type of inorganic fertilizer (most highly oxidized phase in the nitrogen cycle). In water, the major sources of nitrates are septic tanks, feed lots and fertilizers.
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Nitrate
Plant nutrient and inorganic fertilizer that enters water supply sources from septic systems, animal feed lots, agricultural fertilizers, manure, industrial waste waters, sanitary landfills and garbage dumps.(1) ...
Leachate: Liquid that collects contaminants as it percolates through or drains from solid waste, pesticides or fertilizers. Leachate often contains suspended or dissolved waste materials and may occur in farming areas, feedlots, and landfills.
A form of nitrogen that is available to plants. It is found in fertilizer, and is one of the first forms of nitrogen released as crop residues and organic fertilizers decay.
Ammonium Fixation ...
Agri-chemical: chemicals (fertilizers and pesticides) used in agricultural production.
Algal Bloom: large, visible masses of algae found in bodies of water during warm water.
All farming was organic for thousands of years, but then mankind discovered chemical pesticides and fertilizers and began to believe they were the secret to high crop yields and high profits.
Farming practices that add extra nitrogen to the soil, such as applying lots of fertilizer. Certain bacteria that live in the soil turn this extra nitrogen into nitrous oxide.
Burning fossil fuels.
Some industrial and manufacturing processes.
Water that collects contaminants as it trickles through wastes, pesticides or fertilizers. Leaching may occur in farming areas, feedlots, and landfills, and may result in hazardous substances entering surface water, ground water, or soil.
A heavily irrigated lawn subject to high usage of chemicals such as fertilizers, pesticides and fungicides.
HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANES (HOV)
A reference to highway lanes that are reserved for vehicles with two or more occupants (carpooling).
Greenscaping - Pesticide-free landscaping that requires the use of all-natural corn and gluten fertilizers.
Greenwashing - Disinformation disseminated by an organization so as to present an environmentally responsible public image.
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Agricultural Pollution: Farming wastes, including runoff and leaching of pesticides and fertilizers; erosion and dust from plowing; improper disposal of animal manure and carcasses; crop residues, and debris.
agrochemical. Synthetic chemicals (pesticide and fertilizers) used in agricultural production.
"Non-point" sources include runoff from land treated with pesticides, fertilizers or herbicides, car exhaust, contaminated sediments, storm water runoff, atmospheric deposits and domestic sewage5.
The total amount of energy used in the production of a fuel or product . For woodfuel this may include contributions from land preparation, planting, fertilizer and pesticide inputs, thinning, harvesting, comminution, processing, and transport.
COMPOST A mixture of garbage, degradable trash and soil in which bacteria in the soil break down the mixture into a soil conditioner (not a fertilizer). It has high organic content but low nitrogen.
CONC Concrete.
The solids that remain after wastewater treatment. This material is separated from the cleaned water, treated and composted into fertilizer. Another word for sludge is biosolids.
Storm Drain ...
Landscape irrigation: Water conservation through landscaping that uses plants that need little water, thereby saving labor and fertilizer as well as water.
Nitrates are materials containing the "nitrate" ion group made of nitrogen and oxygen; sources include animal wastes and some fertilizers; can seep into groundwater; linked to human health problems, ...
The relatively stable humus material that is produced from a composting process in which bacteria in soil mixed with garbage and degradable trash break down the mixture into organic fertilizer.
Source: Terms of the Environment
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A heavy growth of algae in and on a body of water as a result of high phosphate concentration such as from farm fertilizers and detergents. It is associated with Eutrophication and results in a deterioration in water quality.
Particulates are produced by many sources, including burning of diesel fuels by trucks and buses, incineration of garbage, mixing and application of fertilizers and pesticides, road construction, industrial processes such as steel making, ...
Composting: The natural biological decomposition of organic material in the presence of aerobic bacteria to form a rich, dark soil fertilizer.
Formed when ammonia is degraded by microorganisms in soil or groundwater. This compound is usually associated with fertilizers.
Nitroaromatics ...
It is responsible for the loss of much of the soil's natural and synthetic fertilizers. This process is favored most in warm, anaerobic conditions. [ Science; v261; 1146-1149; 1993.] [Nature; v346; 258-260; 1990.] [Nature; v351; 135-137; 1991.] ...
This would include areas where introduced hardy and persistent grasses, such as crested wheatgrass, are planted and such practices as deferred grazing, burning, chaining, and rotational grazing are used, with little or no chemicals or fertilizer ...
Among these include excess sediment from stream bank erosion and improperly managed construction site, excess nutrients from fertilizer use and both excess nutrients and bacteria from livestock, pet waste and improperly working septic systems, ...
Third are chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and similar chemicals, which are also implicated in the separate problem of ozone depletion (see #5 below). Nitrous oxide (from fertilizers and other chemicals) is fourth. ...
The oil drains down through the soil and contaminates both the soil and the groundwater. Land can also be contaminated through the excessive use of pesticides and fertilizers which drain off the land into rivers and also seep through the soil into ...
The process is used industrially to produce nitrogen fertilizers. Biological nitrogen fixation is accomplished by both free-living and symbiotic microorganisms (prokaryotes). The process is more properly called 'dinitrogen fixation'.
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