Objective
The re-cycling of newspapers produces large quantities of a by-product made up of plant fibre and clay. This project will develop a material from this for improving soil and as an ingredient in composts. At present many composts use peat, which is a non-sustainable practice. This project aims to produce an alternative product that performs as well as peat but uses a free source of basic material. The project will investigate; the use of biocatalysts and microorganisms to degrade the basic material making it suitable for composts. Ways of producing even mixes of balanced composts. Methods of improving soil structure and moisture retention properties on difficult reclamation sites to allow plant establishment in with minimum topsoil. Production of weed suppressants and soil improvers to aid tree establishment in forestry when first planting and after clear felling, especially when whole tree harvesting The market for composts throughout Europe is huge and the proposes would be able to produce and market products for applications including mulches, soil improvers, potting and seeding medium and specialist lightweight composts for hanging baskets.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology environmental engineering waste management waste treatment processes recycling
- engineering and technology environmental biotechnology bioremediation compost
- natural sciences chemical sciences catalysis biocatalysis
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries forestry
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LL57 2BB BANGOR (GWYNEDD)
United Kingdom
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