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January 2020 - Scope 134
Summary of three conferences on biosolids management (sewage sludge)
- Berlin sludge conference 2019 (Berliner Klärschlammkonferenz), 4-5 November 2019, Berlin
- 5th European Conference on Sludge Management (ECSM), 7-8 October 2019, Liège
- 24th European Biosolids Conference, AquaEnviro, Manchester 19-20 November 2019
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December 2019 - SCOPE # 133
In this SCOPE newsletter:
Summary of the ESPP waste water policy workshop
(sewage phosphorus removal perspectives and discharge limits)
Liège, 9th October 2019
- Optimising phosphorus removal strategies
- Flexible permits and catchment/load permitting
- Achievable levels of P-removal
- Financial tools to drive P-removal
- European water and nutrients policies
- Achieving low wwtp phosphorus discharges: trial results of technologies in real wwtp operation
- Investment costs
- Financial incentives
- Chemical P-removal innovation
With: Veolia, Suez, Aquafin, Wessex Water, Severn Trent Water / UKWIR, EGLV (Emschergenossenschaft & Lippeverband), VEAS Norway, Helsinki HSY, Kemira, EUREAU, ENEA (Italian P Platform), MM (Milan’s water operator), Aqua Publica, Denmark Ministry of Environment and Food, European Commission (DG Environment, DG Research & Innovation)
November 2019 - SCOPE # 132
In this SCOPE newsletter:
Summary of the 3rd IWA
Resource Recovery Conference (IWARR 2019)
- Conference conclusions
- From recovery to market
- Workshop on implementation
- Circular City workshop
- Conference keynotes and context
- Sewage sludge challenges in Italy
- Baltic Bonus RETURN
- Operator resource recovery strategies
- EU funding of water resource recovery R&D
- Looking beyond Europe
- Phosphorus recovery technologies
September 2019 - SCOPE # 131
Summary of the 9th International Phosphorus Workshop (IPW9)
ETH Zurich, 8 – 12 July 2019:
- Site visits
- Holistic view
- Phosphorus excess or phosphorus insufficiency?
- Fertiliser innovation
- Animal feeds
- Long-term field trials
- Phosphorus management policies
- Phosphorus recycling
- Conclusions
July 2019 - SCOPE # 130
SCOPE summary edition of the 1st Summit of the Organic Fertiliser Industry in Europe (SOFIE), 5 - 6 June 2019, organised by ESPP. SOFIE brought together, for the first time ever, the European carbon-based fertiliser sector, and attracted over 125 participants, from industry (two thirds of participants), regulators, stakeholders and R&D, covering 14 European countries, as well as India and North America.
April 2019 - SCOPE # 129
- Review papers on new fertilisers
- State of science on sewage biosolids
- Assessment of biosolids on farmland
- P-removal technology trials results published
- IFS Conference: leading science in sustainable farming
- Calcium phosphate food additives and health
- Phosphorus recycling technology tour
- Summary of German and Swiss legislations relevant to phosphorus recycling
October 2018 - SCOPE # 128
One of the European Sustainable Phosphorus Platform (ESPP)’s objectives is to be a hub for networking, for exchange of information and for interaction between research and industry. This SCOPE special edition aims to identify and summarise some of the most significant, recent, scientific publications into phosphorus stewardship. The following list of papers are summarised.
June 2018 - SCOPE # 127
Summary of the 3rd European Sustainable Phosphorus Conference (ESPC3), Helsinki, 11 - 13 June 2018
The 3rd European Sustainable Phosphorus Conference (ESPC3), co-organised by Baltic Sea Action Group (BSAG) and ESPP, brought together nearly 300 participants from 30 countries, significantly increased from ESPC1 (Brussels 2013) and ESPC2 (Berlin 2015).
April 2018 - SCOPE # 126
- Plant materials and organic by-products in the EU Fertilising Products Regulation stakeholder meeting
- Closing nutrient cycles in organic farming stakeholder meeting
- Swiss – German phosphorus recycling conference
- European nutrient recycling R&D meeting
- Dietary phosphorus and health
October 2017 - SCOPE # 125
- Outcomes BIG P conference, Old Trafford, Manchestter
- SYMPHOS conference: Phosphorus industry & phosphorus use innovation
- US Phosphorus RCN research network
- North America Phosphorus Forum
- Newtrient’s manure management technology catalogue
- CIWEM UK P pollution UK assessment of targeted phosphorus fertilisation
- Attitudes to innovative fertilisers
- Ecotoxicity of fertilisers & potassium monophosphate
- New book on phosphorus food science
- Ecotoxicity of recycled phosphate products
- France conference on phosphorus recycling in agriculture
- Resource efficiency in practice: improving farm nutrient management
- World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF)
- All Ireland phosphorus workshop
- Phosphorus recovery & recycling in Japan
February 2017 - SCOPE # 124
- EIP-Agri Focus Group Recycled Nutrients proposals
for Operational Groups and R&D - Regulatory status of struvite as a fertiliser
- CIWEM UK P pollution conference
- Global Organic Resources Congress (GORC) Dublin
- Lombardy – South Holland manure recycling
- World’s biggest P-recovery installation, Chicago
- Mussels for Baltic nutrient recycling
- P recovery onto biochars / chemically modified
biochars - Osmosis P recovery as calcium phosphate
- P-recovery as calcium phosphate from manure
- Review of P adsorption to (modified)
Agricultural Waste Products - Hydrated poultry litter ash as PK-fertiliser
- Assessing eutrophication and restoring water
quality - Improving crop phosphorus use
January 2017 - SCOPE # 123
- Phosphorus in the chemicals industry
- German Phosphorus Platform (DPP) fORUM
- Phosphorus in Nordic countries: P Network announced by Nordic Council of Ministers.
- Pharmaceuticals in sewage biosolids
- Nutrient recycling via biochar
- Biochar research symposium
- Struvite field fertiliser tests and ecotoxicity
- Manure antibiotic adsorption to struvite
- Marketing digestate and green fertilisers to home gardeners