Soil Quality Assessment of Vacant Land Reconverted to Agricultural Land

Abstract

Solid and hazardous waste cannot be solved simply by burying them in the ground. Confining hazardous waste, far from being a solution, is a way of postponing the problem. The waste minimization, which reduces the amount and pollution load of waste, generates by-products. The objective of this study was to evaluate the quality of the soil of a converted agricultural land from vacant land, located in the Villa El Salvador district in Metropolitan Lima. The benefits of reducing the environmental impact on food security and climate change, the result obtain the content of organic matter in the study soil of 1.31%, its equivalent in organic carbon is obtained by dividing by the factor 1.724, resulting in 0.76%.