SESSION D5 / Glass Room / 16 May 2024 / 15:00 - 16:00
Workshop: Circular Economy in Agroindustry
Chair / Presidente: Marco Schiavon (IT)
Intensive crop and animal farming activities are important consumers of land, water resources and key contributors of global (methane and nitrous oxide) and local pollutants (nitrate, ammonia and aerosol), exerting adverse environmental impacts from small scale to global scale. Meanwhile, the agri-food sector is crucial to sustain human life. It is therefore mandatory to seek circular approaches, apply sustainable practices and environmental technologies to optimize the flow of resources, minimize the generation of waste and pollutants and, overall, decrease the environmental impacts of the agri-food sector. Thus, the aim of this session is to present and discuss circular strategies in the agri-food sector involving: 1) a low-cost high-efficient manure pasteurization device to convert manure into valuable material that can be used as bedding, a soil amendment or a growth medium, and 2) the valorization of pruning and other waste biomass through small-scale pyrolysis and thermocomposting to provide energy to local farms and produce biochar and compost that can be used locally as soil improvers.
I. Pölönen, J. Föhr, R. KC, S. Leppäkoski (FI)
Circular economy in farms – Testing farm-scale manure pasteurization device
M. Schiavon, G. Beggio, G. Concheri, V. Grossule, A. Sandon, A. Squartini, M.C. Lavagnolo (IT)
Agricultural waste pyrolysis and thermocomposting for renewable energy in a sustainable agri-food sector: the teapots project
