Turning food waste into sustainable soil improvers for better soil health and improved food systems

Project Information

Waste4Soil

Grant agreement ID: 101112708

DOI

10.3030/101112708

EC signature date 23 May 2023

Start date 1 June 2023

End date 31 May 2027

Funded under

• Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Total cost

€ 6 999 461,25

EU contribution

€ 6 999 461,25

Coordinated by

ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS
Greece

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (9)

Set of dissemination material

Content creation by providing input and information on project progress.

H - POPD - Requirement No. 1
LL demonstrations plans

initial seed for the road map which will be followed by all actors involved in the living labs for both the demonstration of the technologies and of the circular SI in real environment.

Lists of actions and priorities

General list of actions and priorities which are to be considered at the entire project level and of specific lists per LL.

Plan for Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation

Outline a comprehensive and integrated strategy to produce significant and long-term impacts the project target audiences

Dedicated Management Tools

Dedicated Management Tools: creation of dedicated management tools (financial templates, quality plan etc.)

Plan for Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation-1st update

This is the first update of D7.1 that outlines a comprehensive and integrated strategy to produce significant and long-term impacts the project target audiences

POPD – Requirement No. 2
Common guideline for monitoring soil’s properties and crop’s performance

Inform stakeholders of the physical, biological and chemical indicators of quality and fertility in soils and crops’ performance indicators to be monitored in the LL and which standardised methods to be used in all LL, including a protocol for harmonized soil sampling, storage and shipment

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project website

Online web page for project dissemination which hosts a database collecting all data produced in the project

Data Management Plan (1)

Data Management Plan

Data Management Plan: to support day-to-day management and online or physical meetings.

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

Optimised logistics for FPR collection with sensorised containers

Development of an intelligent collection and transport system.

Publications

Conference proceedings (1)

Public perception of sustainable biofertilizers from food processing residues

Author(s): Tuomala Anne-Marie; Eronen Mari
Published in: International Scientific Conference „Business and Management“, 2025, ISSN 2029-4441
Publisher: VILNIUS TECH Press, Technika
DOI: 10.3846/BM.2025.1402

Peer reviewed articles (5)

Integrated digestate management: Contaminant control, valorisation and circular pathways

Author(s): Vera Proskynitopoulou, Anastasios Vourros, Ioannis Garagounis, Souzana Lorentzou, Anastasios Zouboulis, Kyriakos Panopoulos
Published in: Journal of Environmental Management, Issue 405, 2026, ISSN 0301-4797
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2026.129629

Enhancing nutrient and water recovery from liquid digestate: A comparative study of selective electrodialysis and conventional treatment methods

Author(s): Vera Proskynitopoulou, Anastasios Vourros, Ioannis Garagounis, Panagiotis Dimopoulos Toursidis, Souzana Lorentzou, Anastasios Zouboulis, Kyriakos Panopoulos
Published in: Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2213-3437
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jece.2024.112675

New Biotechnology

Author(s): Laura Esposito; Francesca Accardo; Barbara Prandi; Tullia Tedeschi
Published in: New Biotechnology, 2025, ISSN 1871-6784
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.NBT.2025.09.005

Nutrient recovery from digestate: Pilot test experiments

Author(s): Vera Proskynitopoulou, Ioannis Garagounis, Anastasios Vourros, Panagiotis Dimopoulos Toursidis, Souzana Lorentzou, Anastasios Zouboulis, Kyriakos Panopoulos
Published in: Journal of Environmental Management, Issue 353, 2024, ISSN 0301-4797
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120166

Sustainability

Author(s): Lara Resman; Maja Berden Zrimec; Vid Žitko; Borut Lazar; Robert Reinhardt; Ana Cerar; Rok Mihelič
Published in: Sustainability, 2023, ISSN 2071-1050
Publisher: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/SU152416948

Other (1)

Alternative feedstock for biobased plastics: Bridging the gap between research and the market (White Paper)

Author(s): Bearotti, Chiara; López-Hermoso Vallejo, Estela; Venus, Joachim; Meyer, Tanja; Jiménez Lorenzo, Rafael; Lorenzo Navarro, Miriam; Ferrero Aguar, Pablo; Fronk, Marike; Pieters, Julie
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14245778