PROGRESS OF THE MEASURES

Toteutus alkanut


DESCRIPTION

Phosphorus and nitrogen are essential nutrients to the food production. Phosphorus is an unrenewable resource, the exploitable share of which is constantly decreasing.  The production of nitrogen fertilizers is a very energy intensive process. Part of the recyclable nutrients, such as phosphorus and nitrogen in manure, are recovered and reused, but a considerable share is still leached into the waters (phosphorus and nitrogen) and air (nitrogen). Due to human activities, a lot of organic substances such as livestock manure, sludge from the wastewater treatment plants, various biomasses and food waste e.g. from households are generated.

A remarkable share of the nutrients in these substances remain unexploited or are ineffectively used. Nutrients should be recovered, exploited, and recycled optimally, thereby decreasing the use of unrenewable natural resources (phosphorus), saving energy needed in production of artificial fertilizers (nitrogen) and increasing nutritional self-sufficiency.

Improving the effectiveness of nutrient usage and recycling are essential above all for water protection, as this decreases the nutrient loading in water bodies as well as eutrophication. Improving the effectiveness of nutrient usage and recycling requires participation and commitment from all actors, companies, communities, and private citizens.

The aim of the project is to:

  1. Improve the effectiveness of nutrient recycling in agriculture, by means of e.g. the project Utilization of nutrients from agriculture, especially the utilization of manure and at the same time decrease the need for artificial nutrients. Nutrients created in concentrations of livestock farming are used optimally among other things by improving cooperation between crop and livestock farms. This will be achieved through guidance, training and investments in manure processing and development and cooperation projects as well as experimental and demonstration projects of new technologies and lines of action.
  2. Improve the effectiveness of nutrient recycling and implementation of projects and actions which aim at nutritional neutrality, increase the awareness of the concept of nutritional neutrality and emphasize the importance of nutrient recycling especially to improvement of the status of the water. The project activates the target region and other regional units to promote the recycling and exploiting of organic nutrients both safely and as close to their origin as possible.

SCHEDULE

2016-2021


MAIN IMPLEMENTING PARTY

Ministry of the Environment, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

Projects to be carried out under the measure

The “Lara laaturavinne” project – a national quality assurance system for recycled nutrient productsToggle
Recovery of nitrogen and phosphorus from liquid waste (NPHarvest)Toggle
Nutrient Neutral Municipality (RANKU 3)Toggle
Development and testing of fertiliser products based on recycled nutrients (Side stream nutrients)Toggle
ProRavinne (Developing municipal wastewater treatment processes to incorporate them into urban nutrient recycling centres of the circular economy based on biogas plants)Toggle
Research and product development project on the Pasrea composting systemToggle
Product development and production of recycled fertilisers from organic side streamsToggle
Ravinnekuitu – Field experiments with fibre-rich side streams from the forest industryToggle
Further processing and productisation of digestate nutrients at Emomylly’s biogas plant (RavinneEmo)Toggle
Optimising the value of manure and organic fertilisers at field plot level (LaPaMa)Toggle
Utilisation of the separately collected fractions of food processing by-products (Sivukierto)Toggle
Pyrolysis to recycle nutrients contained in sewage sludge (Lietehiili)Toggle
Enhancement of nutrient recycling by a local biocycle model (BioKierto)Toggle
Resource container – products from wastewaterToggle
Use of liquid recycled nutrients in agriculture (Nesteravinne)Toggle
Feasibility study on the large-scale utilisation of reeds and the recycling of nutrients contained in reeds for use in agricultureToggle
Producing recycled fertilisers from chicken manure based on an innovative drying concept (KIEKU) – a feasibility studyToggle
Recovery of nitrogen from liquid rejects from agriculture and forestry and from wastewaters and its productisation into a nutrient solution using the Envistone methodToggle
Productisation of nutrients contained in agricultural by-products and aquatic vegetation (MaVe-tuote)Toggle
Introducing digital tools to promote nutrient recycling on farms (DigiRaki)Toggle
Recycled fertilisers for good yields (HYKERRYS 2)Toggle
Use of pyrolysis products in securing the fertilizer value of liquid manures (PYSTI)Toggle
Recycling wastewater nutrients safely and efficiently (NORMA)Toggle
Recycling nutrients into bio-based fertilisers on farms (Maa-Bio)Toggle
Optimising nutrient cycling for the bioeconomy (Biotrio)Toggle
Processing digestates from biogas plants into fertiliser productsToggle
Recovering nutrients from agricultureToggle
Utilisation of farm animal manure by recycling as bedding material, biogas or granular fertilisersToggle
Added value from agricultural side steams (MOSKU)Toggle
A recycled nutrient cluster from Oulu: production-scale demonstration of organic waste recycling – demonstration plant concept, Rakeistus OyToggle
Horsepower from horse manureToggle
Horsepower from horse manure IIToggle
The DTS method for composting organic wasteToggle
Productisation and redistribution of nutrients contained in the side streams of primary agricultural production and the food industry (Kiertoravinne)Toggle
Lannanpuhdistus Viljakainen Oy – efficient strippingToggle
Recycling nutrients contained in liquid manure with an electro-chemical water purification methodToggle
Utilisation of horse manure (HELMET)Toggle
As part of Helsinki and Turku’s third Baltic Sea Action Plan 2019–2023, the cities will continue to support nutrient neutrality and nutrient offsetting in their activities (Baltic Sea Challenge).Toggle
A recycled nutrient cluster from Oulu: production-scale demonstration of organic waste recycling – demonstration plant concept, SFTec OyToggle
Resource container – products from wastewater – a follow-on projectToggle
Productisation of wastewater treatment sludges (RAVITA)Toggle
Productisation of wastewater treatment sludges (PAKU)Toggle
Sustainable BiogasToggle