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Biobased economy in Sweden

This project aims to quantify Sweden’s potential to recycle nutrients in manure, human excreta and other organic waste back into food production and look at the logistical implications of recycling from a cost and transport perspective at both the national and regional scale.

The image shows the theoretical transportation of digested manure to crop land areas based on nutrient needs in the South of SwedenTheoretical transportation of digested manure (lines) to crop land areas based on nutrient needs (colors) in the South of Sweden Photo credit Nils-Hassan Quttineh
Building on optimization around nutrients, we are now looking at how such organic waste recycling interfaces with energy production (biogas especially), animal welfare (e.g. mobile slaughterhouses), and aquatic biomass harvesting for eutrophication remediation in order for Sweden to meet multiple sustainable development goals at once.

Partners

This work has important implications for policy decisions for food and agricultural severity and environmental sustainability, but also for company profitability.

We have thus partnered with stakeholders in Region Östergötland, along with other research teams at LiU, to coordinate and co-develop relevant questions, datasets, and outputs with the community.

Financial support:

FORMAS, Vinnova.

Publications

 

Contacts

Principal Investigator

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Uno Wennergren

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Karin Tonderski

Senior Associate Professor

Team members

Team members

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Nils-Hassan Quttineh

Senior Associate Professor

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Genevieve Metson
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Roozbeh Feiz

Associate Professor, Docent

Related project: Pakistan 

Nutrient recycling in Pakistan

This project focused on the capacity of recycling organic waste.

Planet earth and recycle symbol.In this project we were using similar methods to those developed in the Swedish biobased economy project, this project focused more on the capacity of recycling organic waste to and meet other SDG:s (including sanitation and green energy production). Professor Uno Wennergren was leading this project.

Publication

Closing Pakistan's Yield Gaps Through
Nutrient Recycling

(Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems)
Authors: Usman Akram, Geneviève S. Metson,
Nils-Hassan Quttineh and Uno Wennergren.


Organisation

Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM)

Undergraduate teaching and research in the areas of biology, chemistry, materials and applied physics and theory and modelling are conducted at this department.

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