Since 2022, we have been involved in the 4-year EU project, P2GreeN. The project aims to develop, test and adapt a circular loop where human sanitary waste is converted into bio-based fertilizer for agriculture.
The food supply chain is currently linear, which simply means that agriculturally grown food is produced with the addition of energy-intensive fertilizer, the consumer consumes it, and then the loop ends. This results in the loss of large amounts of valuable and limited nutrients in the EU.
The P2GreeN project therefore aims to transform this loop from linear to circular, so valuable nutrients benefit agriculture instead of going to waste, with negative downstream consequences for waterways.
The P2GreeN consortium consists of a total of 32 European partners from 12 different countries. In collaboration with the project’s other partners, we are examining the potential for bio-based fertilizer through pilot projects in Sweden, Germany and Spain, where human sanitary waste is recycled and used as fertilizer.
Transition’s role in the project is to make circular business models and investigate the possibilities for starting, developing and scaling a circular collaboration in agriculture.
Read more about P2GreeN by clicking here.
