Project description
Ready to reshape the future of food waste management
The food industry’s waste output is taking a toll. Mountains of food processing residues, once discarded, contribute to pollution and soil degradation. The EU-funded Waste4Soil project will pioneer 10 solutions to transform these residues into local, bio-based circular soil enhancers. It will introduce a standardised evaluation framework, empowering stakeholders across the food value chain to assess their progress in achieving circularity with food processing residues. Seven Soil Health Living Labs will be established across Europe, in Greece, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and Finland, to explore the potential of eight different types of food processing residues. The project will also establish an advanced management platform for data analytics and Internet of things device integration.
Objective
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.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processesrecycling
- engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesfood technology
- engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationbioreactors
- engineering and technologychemical engineeringseparation technologiesdesalinationelectrodialysis
- engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationcompost
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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Participants (26)
75008 Paris
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53850 Lappeenranta
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33100 TAMPERE
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08140 Caldes De Montbui Barcelona
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43121 PARMA
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33800 Bordeaux
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08225 Terrassa
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62000 Arras
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2472 Kajaszo
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46980 Paterna
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00161 Roma
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171 21 Nea Smyrni
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6708 PB Wageningen
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00186 Roma
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28002 Madrid
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24 100 Pulawy
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50100 Kozani
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50100 Kozani
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1000 Ljubljana
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47020 San Vittore Di Cesena
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1000 Ljubljana
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1116 Budapest
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70200 KUOPIO
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28006 Madrid
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6000 Koper
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75009 Paris
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Partners (1)
5070 Frick
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