Recycling and waste

Kafralsheikh University, to take advantage of the waste, is to take advantage of rice straw. Where, large quantities of rice straw are annually produced in Egypt. The goal of this project is to identify economically viable and environmentally sound alternative uses for the approximately 4 Million tons of rice straw in Egypt (120 -130 tons in farm Kafrelsheikh University) that are produced each year and thereby reduce the environmental impact of field burning causing black cloud, which is the current disposal method. 

The project will be carried out by a project team that has expert knowledge on rice straw utilization and conversion to beneficial forms such as compost or as animal feed. A) Composting is a biological process in which organic biodegradable wastes or stabilized and converted by the action of some microorganisms under controlled conditions (aeration, moisture, temperature, etc), into a hygienic, humus-rich product (compost) to be used as a soil conditioner and an organic fertilizer. B) As as animal feed, agricultural crop residues, especially cereal straw, contribute to a major part of the diet of ruminants in developing countries. Crop residues are lignocellulose materials rich in energy, low in crude protein, and poor in palatability. Various chemical and physical delignification methods to improve the digestibility of straw have been extensively researched. Biological methods of treating straw of using microorganisms such as white-rot fungi have also been reported.

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