Using algae to promote agricultural sustainability and the circular economy
ALG-AD is a project from Interreg North-West Europe (NWE) a European Territorial Cooperation Programme funded by the European Commission. The project is being led by Dr Carole Llewellyn,…
Sharing know-how for nutrient recovery from manure, biowaste and sludge
On February 22nd and 23rd, representatives of fifteen biowaste treatment plants came together in Amsterdam to discuss possibilities for nutrient recovery and reuse from manure, sewage and…
Agricultural waste: a valuable resource
Livestock and crops waste: an uncomfortable reality
In the case of livestock industries, the production of meat, milk and eggs generates large volumes of waste with the consequent impact on the environment. If livestock…
ManuREsource conference calls for more collaboration to reach the objectives of the circular economy
From 27 until 29 November, the third edition of ManuREsource took place at Eindhoven (The Netherlands) and welcomed more than 230 participants from 28 countries.…
H2O-C2C
The H2O-C2C project sought to achieve a final breakthrough by further purifying dischargeable effluent using membrane filter techniques to produce water of a high quality to be used, for instance, as drinking water for pigs.
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ManureEcoMine
Technologies of proven efficacy in the wastewater treatment field were combined in several process configurations to demonstrate their technological and environmental potential at pilot scale for cow and pig manure. Anaerobic digestion (mesophilic/…
NutriCycle
NutriCycle contributed to the sustainable development of industrial livestock farming and bio-fermentation as renewable (energy) technology in Flanders. In the first place, the project had a technological approach, but attention was also paid to the…
ReUseWaste
ReUseWaste was created dur to the need to improve management and utilisation of organic matter and nutrient resources in animal waste to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, ammonia and odour, as well as to improve energy outputs and limit the impact…
Towards End-of-Manure status to refined products
The aim of the workshop was to define the conditions that are required for animal manure to leave its legal waste / manure status. Many BCE projects joined the debate (PHOS4YOU, RENU2FARM, NUTRI2CYCLE, NUTRIMAN,…)…
AgroCycle
AgroCycle is a ca. €8 million (ca. €7 million from the European Commission, ca. €1 million from the Government of The People’s Republic of China) Horizon 2020 research and innovation project addressing the recycling and valorisation of waste from the…