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Recycling Locally Produced Bio-Wastes to Ensure Affordability and Availability of Innovative Bio-Based Fertilisers

Abstract

Current fertiliser production has several sustainability issues: while the production of mineral nitrogen fertilisers requires high energy inputs, phosphorus fertilisers are produced by mining a finite reservoir of rock phosphate. In a circular economy, the potential to valorise unused bio-waste streams should therefore be exploited to produce bio-based fertilisers (BBFs) that reduce dependence on mineral fertilisers.

This valorisation of sidestreams into biobased fertilisers is at the core of the ReLeaf project: two main sources of sidestreams, namely sewage sludge and waste generated along the food value chain, will be used to produce the raw materials at laboratory scale. This production will be demonstrated at pilot scale at five different sites across Europe. Finally, the production parameters for marketable fertilisers will be validated at pre-industrial scale.

FiBL will coordinate the work package on the sustainability assessment of the produced fertilisers and will conduct pot experiments to determine the agronomic performance of the fertilisers.

Financing/ Donor
  • State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI
  • European Commission
(Research) Program
  • European Commission, Horizon Europe
Project partners
  • Acondicionamiento Tarrasense Associacion, Spain
  • Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita di Bologna, Italy
  • Rech Innov Transfert Tech Mat Fert Org, France
  • Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
  • Nova ID FCT - Associacao para a Inovacao e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal
  • Uniwersytet Rolniczy im. Hugona Kollataja w Krakowie, Poland
  • Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade, Portugal
  • Stichting EFFOST, Netherlands
  • alchemia-nova Research & Innovation gemeinnützige GmbH, Austria
  • Casali Roberto, Italy
  • Aeris Tecnologias Ambientales SL, Spain
  • Nuevas Tecnologias para el Desarrollo de Packaging y Productos Agroalimentarios con Componente Plastica SL, Spain
  • Global Omnium Medioambiente, S.L., Spain
  • Anecoop Sociedad Cooperativa, Spain
  • TIMAC AGRO Italia S.P.A, Italy
  • Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau (FiBL), Switzerland
  • Ineuvo Ltd, United Kingdom
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Role of FiBL

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Further information
FiBL project number 35282
Date modified 17.06.2024
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