FertiPLUS – Reducing mineral fertilisers and agro-chemicals by recycling treated organic waste as compost and bio-char products
What is FertiPLUS?
The focus in FERTIPLUS is in understanding why a given processing of a selection of combination of feedstocks will make a good product and to provide a tool for SME’s to determine the best strategy (what feedstock and what processing conditions will produce product with fertilizer value – what to put on the bag of the product?). The focus for feedstocks in FERTIPLUS is on urban and agricultural waste including garden and park waste, municipal household waste, residues from anaerobic digestors for N and P recuperation. FERTIPLUS will assess the available organic waste and estimate how much N and P could be made available if returned to agriculture and whether this could be realised according to regulatory safety standards currently under development.
Date: December 2012 - November 2015
Location: Europe Union
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FERTIPLUS
FERTIPLUS – Reducing the use of mineral fertilisers and agro-chemicals recycling treated organic waste as compost and bio-char. A vast quantity of organic waste is produced annually within the EU. Agriculture is the biggest contributor in organic residues, followed by yard and forestry waste, sludge waste from water treatment plants, food processing waste, and an organic fraction in municipal waste.
48 months
Total project duration
Total budget 4M€
of which it receives a contribution from the European Commission of approximately 3M€.
14 partners
from 6 European countries
