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Transforming food processing residues (FPR) into soil improvers

Waste4Soil aims at developing applicable recycling technical pathways to transform FPR into soil improvers, through a circular, systemic and multi actor approach at regional level. 

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6 realistic, & measurable objectives

The objective of Waste4Soil is providing ecosystem solutions that encompass the collaboration within and outside the project with the multiple and diverse stakeholders of this food waste chain from farm to fork.

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Multidisciplinary Consortium

To address food systems sustainability and soil health with food processing  residues,  Waste4Soil rely on a multidisciplinary and balanced team. 

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Discover our Living Labs

The Waste4Soil project strives to set up 7 Living-Labs in the different EU regions.

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For a circular use of food-processing residues (FPR) in the European food chain

Waste4Soil serves a double purpose: reducing the percentage of food waste in Europe by recycling food-processing residues and turning them into soil improvers to enhance soil health across Europe. 

Waste4Soil aims to do so through a multi-actor approach at regional level. 7 living labs will be studied, having different cultural and geographical aspects.

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About Waste4Soil

The project involves 28 partners from 9 European countries and Switzerland and has been funded to the tune of €7 million. Waste4Soil envisions the development of 10 technological and methodological solutions for recycling food processing residues from the food industry into local, biobased circular soil improvers for improved soil health.    

A user-driven standardised Evaluation Framework will support stakeholders from the food value chain, including waste managers, to assess their status towards food processing residues circularity and act for recycling suitable waste streams into beneficial soil improvers. To ensure collaborative research and innovation, Waste4Soil will setup 7 Soil Health Living Labs across Europe, in Greece, Finland, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Italy and Slovenia, to study the valorisation of 8 types of food processing residues (i.e., meat, fish, dairy, cereals, olive oil, beverages (wine), fruits and vegetables, and processed food). 

10 technological and methodological solutions for recycling food processing residues from the food industry into local, biobased circular soil improvers for improved soil health

User-driven standardised Evaluation Framework to support stakeholders from the food value chain

7 Soil Health Living Labs across Europe, in Greece, Finland, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Italy and Slovenia

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Start of the project
1 June 2023
End of the project
31 May 2027

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