Composting has become a preferable option to treat organic wastes to obtain a final stable
sanitized product that can be used as an organic amendment. From home composting to big …

In the past few decades, solid waste management systems in Europe have involved
complex and multi-faceted trade-offs among a plethora of technological alternatives …

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 (P) is considered a potentially critical resource because reserves are limited; it
is required by all creatures, and it cannot be substituted. In this paper a substance flow …

Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are two elements contributing to many environmental
problems, such as eutrophication, global change (N) and acidification (N). Mitigation of the …

Solid waste management is a significant issue for sustainable development that involves the
technical, socioeconomic, legal, ecological, political, and even cultural components. For this …

Large-scale studies at the regional, national and global scales are increasingly needed to
assess nutrient flows in agroecoystems and to identify their drivers. In this study, we aimed to …

Improvement in nutrient recycling in agriculture is essential to maintain food production
while minimising nutrient pollution of the environment. For this purpose, understanding and …

Resource-efficient nutrient management is key to secure food production in the context of a
growing global population, rising resource scarcity and increasing pressure on the …

Due to the finite nature of mineral phosphorus reserves, effective management of
anthropogenic phosphorus flows is currently under investigation by the international …