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http://dx.doi.org/10.14481/jkges.2016.17.10.45

The Long-term Growth Characteristics of Vegetation Base Materials Include Spent Coffee Ground  

Lee, Jundae (Department of Civil Engineering, Semyung University)
Yeon, Yonghum (Department of Civil Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
Seong, Siyung (Yesong Landscaping Co. Ltd.)
Bae, Wooseok (NANO-GEO ENC Co. Ltd.)
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Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society / v.17, no.10, 2016 , pp. 45-53 More about this Journal
Abstract
At present, coffee consumption amount is annually on the rise in Korea, which results in about 0.27 million tons of coffee waste annually. They are mostly classified as food waste and deserted with moisture contained, being a serious environmental issue. Existing slope greening techniques, which are vegetation based soil-media hydroseeding measures, have problems such as lack of coherence, dryness or lack of organic matters. Therefore in order to assess usability of Spent Coffee Ground (SCG), medium-to long-term growth test was conducted under the indoor and outdoor conditions. According to the result of growth test, when SCG was mixed with existing base materials, moisturizing power increased and organic matter content was reinforced, promoting germination and growth in a medium term. Among others, under the condition when supply of water was discontinued, withering rate was lower than existing base materials and diverse phenomena resulting from lack of nutrition decreased. Therefore, SCG as a waste organic matter with abundant nitrogen has the characteristic of inhibiting early growth but was found to have a quality favorable to long-term growth resulting from water containing ability and the supply of organic mater and is judged to be a material to replace or complement existing base materials.
Keywords
Slope greening techniques; Spent coffee ground; Growth test; Organic mater;
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