New composting scenarios in the circular economy
framework
Learn about our research project on quality assurance, health safety and pollution prevention in community composting, agro-composting and decentralized urban composting.
From ‘waste as a problem’ to ‘waste as a resource’
“Healthy-compost” in sustainable agricultural
scenarios
The development of circular economy demands high-quality, secondary raw materials that can be fed back into production
processes
In this context, composting is a win-win option that allows for not only reducing environmental pollution derived by open dumping of waste, but also recovering
nutrients essential for crop production, consequently enhancing crop yields and reducing expensive chemical fertilizers usage.
NEOCOMP objectives
The main objectives of this project are:
Assessment of the feedstocks
Assess the different new composting scenarios (community composting, agrocomposting and decentralized urban composting).
Potential benefits and risks
The potential agronomic and environmental benefits associated to compost use will be quantified and validated on soil sustainability, nutrient recovery and plant availability.
Assesment of the processes
Typology of the new composting decentralized models.
Increase plant resistance
Validation of the composts obtained to increase plant resistance to abiotic stress, like drought and warming.
Screening of the final composts
Guarantee the hazard-free use of the compost obtained on their agronomic and added-value characteristics, as well as their absence of human health and polluting risks, with an environmental approach in the framework of the circular economy.
Environmental assessment
Study indicators associated to each composting scenario on climate
change mitigation due to increase of C sequestration, ensuring non-transfer of pollutants to the food chain by monitoring them in the soil-plant system.
>10,000 ton of compost
in 4 years
>2,500 ton of C stocking
emissions avoided
0.5 Million €
value in nutrient recovery
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