Waste4Soil

Waste4Soil envisions the development of 10 technological and methodological solutions for recycling food processing residues from the food industry into local, biobased circular soil improvers for improved soil health. A user-driven standardised Evaluation Framework will support stakeholders from the food value chain, including waste managers, to assess their status towards food processing residues circularity and take action for recycling suitable waste streams into beneficial soil improvers. To ensure co-innovation and collaborative research, Waste4Soil will setup 7 Soil Health Living Labs across Europe, in Greece, Finland, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Italy and Slovenia, to study the valorisation of 8 types of food processing residues (i.e. meat, fish, dairy, cereals, olive oil, beverages (wine), fruits and vegetables, and processed food). The project focuses on assessing and improving the effectiveness of existing routes of food waste management to soil improver components, formulation and application methods by focusing on:

1) Anaerobic digestion residues by employing novel nutrient separation including Selective Electrodialysis, bio-electrochemical and membrane systems

2) Novel efficient Biochar production from food processing wastes and digestates

3) BioPhosphate processing

4) Effective composting process of solid residues

5) Protein hydrolysates acting as soil improvers and AD-Microalgae combined processes for soil biostimulants

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6) An enabling management platform applied in all living labs, with a growing database of data analytics, route optimisation applications, soil health evaluations and application recipe’s, commercial aspects, and the capacity to use IoT devices in logistics.

The 27 partners and 1 associated partner supporting this project proposal are forming a transdisciplinary partnership accross 10 European countries.

Consortium

ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS (Coordinator) (CERTH), Greece
ASSOCIATION NATIONALE DES INDUSTRIES ALIMENTAIRES, France
LAB-AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY, Finland
SOILFOOD OY, Finland
INSTITUT DE RECERCA I TECNOLOGIA AGROALIMENTARIES, Spain
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA, Italy
ASSEMBLEE DES REGIONS EUROPEENNES FRUITIERES LEGUMIERES ET HORTICOLES, France
ACONDICIONAMIENTO TARRASENSE ASSOCIACION, Spain
SEDE ENVIRONNEMENT, France
3R-BioPhosphate Ltd., Hungary
INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DEL EMBALAJE, TRANSPORTE Y LOGISTICA, Spain
ASSOCIAZIONE NAZIONALE COOPERATIVE AGROITTICOALIMENTARI PER LO SVILUPPO RURALE E COSTIERO, Italy
WINGS ICT SOLUTIONS TECHNOLOGIES PLIROFORIKIS KAI EPIKOINONION ANONYMI ETAIREIA, Greece
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY, Netherlands
CONFEDERAZIONE GENERALE DELL AGRICOLTURA ITALIANA, Italy
BIOMASA PENINSULAR S.A, Spain
INSTYTUT UPRAWY NAWOZENIA I GLEBOZNAWSTWA, PANSTWOWY INSTYTUT BADAWCZY, Poland
CLUSTER VIOOIKONOMIAS KAI PERIVALLONTOS DYTIKIS MAKEDONIAS, Greece
ANONYMI ETAIREIA DIACHEIRISIS APORRIMMATON PER DYTIKIS MAKEDONIAS, Greece
KOTO PROIZVODNO IN TRGOVSKO PODJETJE DOO, Slovenia
GESCO SOCIETA COOPERATIVA AGRICOLA, Italy
UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI, Slovenia
BAY ZOLTAN ALKALMAZOTT KUTATASI KOZHASZNU NONPROFIT KFT., Hungary
SAVONIA-AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU OY, Finland
AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, Spain
ZNANSTVENO-RAZISKOVALNO SREDISCE KOPER, Slovenia
EUROQUALITY SAS, France

Partner

FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUR BIOLOGISCHEN LANDBAU STIFTUNG, Switzerland