The Grassification project aims to turn the roadside cuttings from waste into a resource. The current valorization route is composting in the best case, but also non-legal practices like rotting alongside the roads are common. Recently, the consortium held a webinar on the valorisation of roadside grass cuttings to explore new and feasible solutions. […]
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WE NEED YOUR HELP! to establish a viable value chain for grass clippings within the Interreg 2-seas Grassification project. […]
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During this year’s EU Green Week 2020, which aims to emphasise the contribution biodiversity can make to society and the economy, the GO-GRASS project will shed light on the overlooked potential of grasslands during the online event ‘Go for Grass: exploiting grassland potential in the EU Circular economy’, that will take place on 22 October 2020. […]
Over the last 12 months, Biorefinery Glas, one of Europe’s first small-scale biorefinery demonstration projects, has been working with farmers in Ireland to show how new products and revenue streams can be created using a new farmer-centric bioeconomy approach. Core project partners include research institutes (Institute of Technology, Tralee and University College Dublin) and agri-food organisations (Carbery Group and Barryroe Co-operative), along with core technology partner GRASSA BV. […]
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Gramitherm is currently the only company – worldwide – to manufacture thermal insulation panels using prairie grass. This involves a patented Swiss technology that was launched in 2006 and that Gramitherm took over in 2014. Gramitherm has excellent performance standards, one of which is to have a negative carbon balance! […]
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Fast pyrolysis technology can convert a wide range of difficult-to-handle biomass into a clean and uniform bio-oil, which is easy to store and transport. Most applications have so far focused on the use of pyrolysis oil for energy purposes, but the Horizon 2020 project Bio4Products has developed a technology to divide pyrolysis oil into multiple fractions that could be used for material applications. […]
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. […]
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. […]
Large areas of contaminated land can be found all over Europe; these lands, mostly degraded due to former industrial activities, cannot be used for food production. Since the debate between land for food versus non-food production is getting more attention, the need to use these available sites is growing. […]