It’s likely that most of the food you’ll eat today was not farmed sustainably. The global system of food production is the largest human influence on the planet’s natural cycles of nitrogen and phosphorus. How much crops can grow is limited by the amount of these two elements in the soil, so they’re applied as… Continue reading We found a way to turn urine into solid fertiliser – it could make farming more sustainable
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Take a virtual tour of our BSF Colony at SLU
Recently, Cecilia Lalander and Viktoria Wiklicky from our research group made a short 12 min video of the our Black Soldier Fly (BSF) rearing colony. Click on the link below to take a virtual tour of our facilities and to learn how we rear our flies, how the flies/larvae move through the various stages of… Continue reading Take a virtual tour of our BSF Colony at SLU
Webinar on serious gaming – RECLAIM
We are pleased to announce a webinar on the serious-game that we have made on resource recovery in sanitation – RECLAIM. We will present it on the 11th November, 2020 between 13:00-14:00 CEST.
2020 Rich Earth Virtual Summit: Reclaiming Urine as a Resource
A group of us attended this year’s Virtual Summit about Reclaiming Urine as a Resource. The main take aways:
Launching the Guide to Sanitation Resource-Recovery Products & Technologies
We are pleased to announce the we will soon be publishing a Guide to Sanitation Resource-Recovery Products & Technologies! To launch this publication we are hosting a webinar on the SuSanA forum. When? 22nd of October, 2020 between 14:00-15:00 CEST. Details and registration can be found on this link: https://www.susana.org/en/news-and-events/sanitation-events/upcoming-events?details=170 This Webinar is organized by… Continue reading Launching the Guide to Sanitation Resource-Recovery Products & Technologies
BSF larvae as chicken feed
This summer the BSF farm supplied 40 laying hens with 25kg of live larva per week. The experiment stretched over 14 weeks and in the end a grand total of 350kg of live larva ended up as nutritious chicken feed! The hens were split up into three experimental groups, in addition to a control group,… Continue reading BSF larvae as chicken feed
Our new team member Gabriella will work with microplastics!
My name is Gabriella and I have just started working as a research assistant at SLU. I have studied environmental engineering and I graduate recently. My dissertation focused on small-scale water purification and was carried out as an MFS (Minor Field Study) project in the Kenyan capital Nairobi 2019. In Nairobi’s slum Kibera, the possibility… Continue reading Our new team member Gabriella will work with microplastics!
Publication on field testing alkaline urine dehydration at pilot-scale in Finland
In early 2019, we designed and installed a pilot shell system to dry fresh urine collected from about 100 toilet users each day (or a maximum of 30 liters of urine day-1). The system was implemented at a Finnish army training ground (Camp Mauri) belonging to Pori Brigade, which is a garrison in Säkylä, Finland… Continue reading Publication on field testing alkaline urine dehydration at pilot-scale in Finland
The “new urban water paradigm” – what is it about?
Over the past decades, the idea of a new urban water paradigm has emerged in the context of a broader societal change that promotes a more organic worldview over a mechanistic and technocratic understanding of reality. But what is this new paradigm about?
New Post Doc in the group will work on wastewater sustainability assessment
My name is Priscila Lima and I have just started a postdoc within the Environmental Engineering group. I am originally from Brazil and I have lived in the US and in Denmark for some time. I am an Environmental Engineer that has been working with solid waste management systems ever since my bachelor’s thesis. Most… Continue reading New Post Doc in the group will work on wastewater sustainability assessment