Water scarcity, nutrient-depleted soils and pollution continue to be a major challenge
worldwide and these are likely to worsen with increasing global populations particularly, in …

The need for better nutrient management has spurred efforts towards more comprehensive
recycling of nutrients contained in human excreta to agriculture. Research in this direction …

Background and aim Recycled sources of phosphorus (P), such as struvite extracted from
wastewater, have potential to substitute for more soluble manufactured fertilisers and help …

Sustainability in waste and wastewater treatment is currently drawing extensive attention.
This study employed magnesium-oxides-modified biochar (Mg-biochar) yielded from wood …

The series of papers in this issue of AMBIO represent technical presentations made at the
7th International Phosphorus Workshop (IPW7), held in September, 2013 in Uppsala …

Abstract The European Commission has recently revised the EU legislation on fertilisers,
expanding its scope to secondary-raw-material-based fertilising products, and resulting in …

Phosphorus is essential to life on Earth and frequently limits the productivity of ecosystems,
including agroecosystems. Currently, a substantial portion of the global human population …

Urine contains most of the nutrients excreted by humans. They are mainly released into the
environment and contribute to the strong disruption of planetary biogeochemical cycles …

To address the shortcomings of modern wastewater treatment, Ecological Sanitation
(EcoSan) has been advocated as a sustainable approach to promote closed-loop flows of …

Phosphorus (P) is an essential element for all life forms, and P-availability thus an important
driver of a functioning agriculture. However, phosphate rock resources for P-fertilizer …