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Zero waste: problems become opportunities in Waste Prevention and Management

September 2020
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Interreg Mediterranean

The third of the four Thematic Working Groups created by the Interreg MED's Green Growth community addressed waste reduction, prevention, and management.

This paper promotes solutions to reduce organic (livestock) and inorganic waste, and maps technologies, systems, and strategies for proper waste management. It illustrates issues - e.g. over-production/application of high-nitrogen slurry and manure and need to treat it, as well as lack of treatment of agrifood waste - and highlights the projects’ contributions to achieve full use of resources through their life cycle to create a circular economy.
 
Among the results: policy guidelines based on four Struvite Precipitation (SP) plants to stimulate innovation and set up a common legal framework for struvite as fertilizer.
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Waste
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Circular Economy
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