Meat Processing and Insect Cultivation Industries, Denmark

Challenges:

There is a need to assess the potential of processing solutions for mixed food industry residue streams (dairy, slaughterhouse, agricultural, vegetable and fruit processing industries) to recycle nutrients and produce safe and tailored soil improvers.

Solutions:

Value chain actors will be brought together to develop and test the effect of soil improvers (insect frass, digestates, compost and meat and bone meal) and their post-treatment processes (separation, mixing, pelletizing) on soil health indicators and fertilizing value.

Outcomes:

Novel soil improvers from different residues with tested effects on soil health in pot and field trials. Recommendations on mixing different soil improvers to optimise soil improvement and fertilising effect of the novel products.

Replicability:

These results can be used in other value chains in Denmark but also in other EU regions.

Living Lab Coordinator: 

Living Labs Meat Processing and Insect Cultivation Denmark
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Regional Working Group (RWG)

Overview:

Denmark’s RWG covers the whole country. With more than 60% of the land used for farming and plenty of by-products available, Denmark is an ideal place to develop new soil amendments from recycled materials. The group brings together researchers, farmers, businesses and community organisations at national level so that ideas and experiences can be shared across regions. This teamwork helps reduce waste, recycle nutrients, improve soil health and speed up Denmark’s move towards a more sustainable food system. The group’s main focus is to study how recycled products affect soil health and to make sure their use does not harm the environment or cause soil contamination. 

Coordinators:

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Members:

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Results

Pelletising as by-product development technology for bio-based soil improvers

Recycling of food-processing residues and the effect on soil health

Authors: Eva Faurholdt Vistisen, Sander Bruun & Veronika Hansen

Solid-state fermentation of juice waste with production of biostimulant: A life cycle assessment

Author: Maja Rydgård, Enric Garcia-Muchart, Nancy Peña, Sander Bruun.

Citizen Factsheet: Recirkulering for sund jord (Danish)

Citizen Factsheet: Recycling for Soil Health (Denmark – English)

Industry Factsheet: Recirkulering for sund jord (Danish)

Industry Factsheet: Recycling in Soil Health (Denmark – English)

Insect production and Insect Frass

Authors: Veronika Hansen, University of Copenhagen; Marc Neuberger, Andrea  Bauerle, Anna Fath. University of Hohenheim

Mapping funding mechanisms to support circular soil improvers from food side streams

Ronald A. Farrar-Tobar,  Marina Ettl, Ludwig Hermann. Proman Management GmbH

Delivering safe and accepted soil fertilisers in Denmark: insights from SWOT and PESTLE analysis

Authors: Edyta Waluś, Magdalena Andrunik, Marzena Smol Mineral and Energy, Economy Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences

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