“Common Dissemination Booster” services for Nutrient Recycling projects
Several projects related to “Nutrient Recycling” where granted the “Common dissemination booster” services under the coordination of the Biorefine Cluster Europe. These services will be…
A new EU provisional agreement on recycled and organic fertilisers
Currently only 5% of waste organic material is recycled and used as fertilizers; but if more bio-waste is recycled, non-organic fertilizer can be replaced up to 30%. Neverthless, the existing 2003…
The EU Institutions agreed on Commission's proposal to boost the use of organic and waste-based fertilisers
The new rules are aimed at reducing the need for mineral-based fertilisers, which has negative environmental impacts and depends mainly on imports of…
Valorization of contaminated land and development of sustainable value chains based on fiber crops
In the frame of the New-C-Land project, a pot experiment will be set up with a fiber crop, that will grow on different types of contaminated soils over Flanders,…
FaST: a new tool for sustainable use of nutrients
FaST (Farm Sustainability Tool for Nutrients) aims to make the use of fertilisers more sustainable for farmers in the EU, while boosting the digitisation of the agriculture sector. It…
PHOS4YOU successfully launched by organizing the first European Nutrient Event
The INTERREG-NWE PHOS4YOU project was succesfully launched by organizing a European conference in Basel (October 18-20 2017).
The European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform ESPP…
ERGaR: European Renewable Gas Registry to facilitate the cross-border biomethane trade
The founding members
On the 28th September 2016 in Ghent ten members from eights European countries have agreed on setting-up the the “European Renewable Gas Registry” (…
Phos4You films portray P recovery options
Filmmaker Hans von Sonntag is excited about Phos4You's approach. With his camera he accompanies the partnership to visualise P recovery from wastewater: " It is admirable how committed the scientists are to research for…