Horizon Europe FertiCovery Project: Best Available Techniques for Recovering or Recycling Fertilizer Products from Secondary Raw Materials
- Type Project
- Status Signed
- Execution 2025 -2027
- Assigned Budget 1.934.961,38 €
- Scope Europeo
- Autonomous community Castilla y León
- Main source of financing Horizon Europe 2021-2027
- Project website https://ferticovery.eu/
The excessive use of synthetic fertilizers has severely disrupted the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, leading to soil degradation and environmental pollution. These practices have compromised soil health, water quality, and biodiversity, posing significant challenges for sustainable agriculture.
Addressing this problem requires innovative solutions that minimize environmental impact and maintain agricultural productivity. The EU-funded FertiCovery project offers a promising approach by exploring best available technologies for recycling fertilizers from secondary raw materials. The project will evaluate more than 25 bio-based fertilizer and nutrient recovery technologies, focusing on their efficiency, environmental impact, and market viability. By producing detailed reports and engaging stakeholders through various events, FertiCovery aims to promote the use of environmentally friendly fertilizers.
The main objective of the FertiCovery project is to analyze the best available technologies for recycling fertilizers from secondary raw materials. It advises policymakers and stakeholders on alternative fertilizer products, ensuring balanced flows of nitrogen and phosphorus and promoting soil health and structure within ecological limits at the regional and local levels.
From a long list of nutrient recovery (NR) and bio-based fertilizer (BBF) technologies, FertiCovery will select and describe 25 technologies, their raw materials, products, and applications, followed by an assessment of the technologies' technical aspects and environmental impact; an assessment of the composition, health safety, and environmental impact of the associated fertilizer products; and an assessment of raw material availability, scaling-up potential, regulatory framework, costs and resulting social risks in the market, and replication potential.
At the end of the project, a detailed multi-criteria decision analysis report and data sheets for the 10 to 15 best available technologies will be published. The identification and involvement of European and international stakeholders, particularly through the organization of five online/hybrid workshops and six in-person/hybrid open forums, will ensure that information on the best available technologies is shared with a broader audience of technology providers, end-users, policymakers, and the scientific community.
The project's results will enable them to carry out appropriate activities to eliminate barriers and promote the use of non-renewable and biocompatible fertilizers. This paves the way for the widespread use of environmentally friendly biocompatible fertilizers. Society will benefit from the circular use of alternative fertilizers recovered from secondary raw materials, as they reduce the environmental impact on soil, water, air quality, biodiversity, and the climate.
- B.T.G. BIOMASS TECHNOLOGY GROUP BV
- ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION
- EUROPEAN COMPOST NETWORK ECN EV
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO
- FUNDACION CARTIF
- EUROPEAN BIOGAS ASSOCIATION AISBL
- POLITECHNIKA WROCLAWSKA
- GREENOVATE ! EUROPE
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