Run4Life project, Recovery and Utilisation of Nutrients 4 Low Impact FErtiliser

Run4Life project, Recovery and Utilisation of Nutrients 4 Low Impact FErtiliser

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Domestic wastewater is an important carrier of resources, especially water and nutrients – which are hardly recovered in the current centralised wastewater management systems. The EU H2020 project Run4Life (2017-2021) demonstrated an alternative strategy for improving nutrient recovery, based on a decentralised treatment of segregated black water (toilet wastewater), grey water (other domestic wastewaters) and organic kitchen waste. Different innovative technologies are combined to achieve this goal. At 4 sites in Europe , for the first time nutrients are recovered from domestic waste streams of several 100s of dwellings. In collaboration with fertiliser producers, the project partners characterised the resulting products and determined the possibilities for their agricultural application. End users and other stakeholders were a fundamental part of this evaluation to achieve institutional, legal and social acceptance.

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