Roadside grass clippings are a problem fraction throughout the 2 Seas Programme area due to their high volume, subject to high processing costs. The industrial sector, however, is interested in the possibility of using roadside grass clippings as an alternative resource for the production of energy and bio-materials. […]
An 800-litre photobioreactor was installed at INNOLAB premises, Oostkamp (Belgium), as part of the Investment site 3 of the ongoing Interreg NWE project ALG-AD. The first phase of construction and water testing was successfully completed during the third week of June. […]
Over the past year the EU Interreg NWE funded ALG-AD project has offered placements to three students under the Erasmus student exchange programme.
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In Flanders, residual flows such as manure and vegetable residues (leek residues, onion peels, etc..) are usually stored and then carried out on the land without further processing. […]
The H2020 project SYSTEMIC will demonstrate a variety of technologies for the recovery of mineral nutrients (N, P, K) and for the production of various (nutrient-depleted) organic soil improvers and fertilizers. The implementation of nutrient recovery technologies allows plant owners to process biowaste into user-specific products for the regional market. […]
The EU is now undergoing an energy transition to replace fossil fuels by renewable energy sources. This transition is aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the dependence of EU countries on fossil fuels. Promoting the development of renewable energies brings also an opportunity for waste reduction, as biowaste can be converted into renewable energy. […]
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The population increase in the last decades has influenced the demand for food products from vegetal and animal origin and has brought with it the consequent industrialisation of agriculture in Europe. We are used to take for granted food availability without excessively questioning the impact of food production in our environment. But the truth is that our actions come with a price and one of the prices we pay is the enormous quantity of waste generated to feed our societies. Every year in Europe, millions of tonnes of crops and livestock resources go to waste. […]
Pilots4U project is creating a Europe-wide map of all pilot and demonstration infrastructures that are open access: equipment ready to scale up at the fingertips of each entrepreneur.
The Pilots4U database allows the entrepreneur to look for pilot facilities close-by or for facilities specialised in certain bio-economy disciplines. This simplifies the scale-up of new bio-based processes, as it eliminates the hassle and stress of hardware investments and of finding staff with scale-up expertise at this stage of the process. […]
