하수슬러지 자원화 처리 방안은 소각, 건조, 탄화, 용융, 고화, 연료화, 퇴비화 등이 제안되고 있다. 그 중 고화처리는 다른 공법에 비해 건설비 절감, 처리공정 단순, 환경영향이 적다는 특징을 가지고 있다.하수슬러지의 고화처리 시 고화재 투입으로 인한 건조 중량 증가가 단점으로 언급되고 있으나, 하수슬러지를 이용하여 제조한 인공토양은 흙을 대체할 건설재료로 활용이 가능하여 천연토사의 절감과 인공토양의 판매로 인한 경제적인 장점을 지니고 있다. 본 연구에서는 슬래그 활성화 메커니즘을 기반으로 하고 자극제로 고칼슘 플라이애시를 활용하여 제조한 하수슬러지 고화재 CMD-SOIL 1000(형원길 외, 폐기물학회 2012)을 국내 하수슬러지 자원화 설비에 적용하여 배출된 고화물의 유효 자원으로써의 재활용 가능성을 평가하고자 하였다. 상기 고화물의 매립시설 복토재로 품질 적합성(폐기물관리법 시행규칙)을 선행 연구결과 확인할 수 있었으며, 다짐시험을 실시한 결과 연약지반 판정기준의 사질지반 기준(도로설계 편람, 2000)을 상회하는 값인 최적 함수비 49.1%와 최대 건조밀도 1.06g/cm²를 나타내어 지반침하에 대한 안정성 확보가 가능한 것으로 판단되었다. 또한 고화물과 자연 상태의 토사를 일정한 비율로 혼합한 토양에 페레니얼 그라이스를 파종하여 생육 특성을 살핀 결과, 발아초기에는 자연 상태의 토사의 비율이 높을수록 개체수가 많고 성장속도의 차이가 있었으나 재령이 지날수록 육안으로 관찰되는 차이가 없었으며, 파종 56일 이후에는 자연 상태의 토사만을 활용한 경우와 동일한 생육 상황이 관찰되었다. 따라서 고칼슘 플라이애시를 적용한 하수슬러지 고화물은 매립지 복토재 외에도 토지개량제 및 기반 성토재 등의 용도로 활용이 가능한 것으로 판단되었다.

Animal and crop production systems were integrated on a single farm. This integrated farming system recycled nutrients on the farm. The separation of animal and crop production with the introduction of cheap commercial fertilizers, farms were not used land-applied manure. The on-line manure matching is one of the emerging business in the achievement of recycling and resource recovery. The manure matching actively promotes the reuse and recycling of by-products and manure. This study constructs to manure matching information system to solve the exchange problems between herders and croppers. Manure matching web sites designed. This paper introduces a web-based animal manure matching system. A manure matching service, part of the manure transport, links farmers who produce excess manure with farmers who can use the manure. Farmers registered with the service have requested manure. The manure matching service supports the transport project by linking farmers with excess manure with those farmers who can utilize the manure safely as a nutrient source. The goal of the service is to protect water quality by fostering efficient land application. Benefits to those who use the manure network include reduced disposal costs, lower purchase costs and recycling of manure. The manure matching is based on the principle that ‘one persons waste is another person’s fertilizer.’ It provides a free online matchmaking service for environmentally safe manure recycling management system.

This paper is a research on the economical analysis of the food waste recycling in order to enhance the proper management of food waste. In Korea, food waste is separated from the source compulsorily and treated on the feed, compost and other recycling plant. In this study the present economical evaluations of food waste recycling plants, such as collection & transportation, construction, operation cost and B/C analysis, is investigated. Based on a food waste recycling plants with a 50 ton/day, costing analysis was conducted by the present value criterion technique. The actual operation costs for directly operated plants were 88,358 won/ton for feed production, 79,015 won/ton for composting, 49,934 won/ton for other recycling, and 96,285 won/ton for incineration. When the profit from products sale for each recycling system and the depreciation cost of plants were considered, the costs for direct operation were 95,784 won/ton for feed production system, 96,824 won/ton for composting system, 56,576 won/ton for other recovery system and 143,776 won/ton for incineration system. And when a new facility is constructed, feed production could be favorable in operation cost and environmental aspects.

In this study, life cycle assesment (LCA) was conducted based on a functional unit of 1 ton of food waste recycling from collection and transportation to treatment processes such as feed production, composting, other recycling and incineration for 45 public food waste recycling plants. The Korean life cycle inventory (LCI) data were used for the main input material and energy. For the other input data, which could not be provided by the Korean LCI database, data of other countries were used from the database by Ecoinvent, and the strength of food wastewater for LCI DB was divided low and high concentration. In case of low strength of food wastewater, environmental impacts were suggested incineration, composting and feed production in the order, where collection and transportation were identified as the major influencing factors by contribution analysis and sensitive analysis. Contrary, in case of high strength of food wastewater, environmental impacts were suggested composting, feed production and incineration in the order, where treatment of food wastewater was identified as the major influencing factor. Therefore, discharge volume as well as concentration of food wastewater was found to be important parameter of the LCA.