Transforming nutrient-rich residues to resources through a circular economy

November 12, 2024

By Lucinda Li, Robert Aldi, Deborah Aller, Harshal Kansara, Rebecca Nelson, Doug Young, Dustin Young, Stan Cuff, Jeff Hallowell, Johannes Lehmann

The issue

Organic residues can contain valuable nutrients that pollute the environment when mismanaged. Managing these organic residues poses a significant financial cost and a carbon footprint to agricultural production. Simultaneously, conventional fertilizers have a large carbon footprint and are expensive or even inaccessible to many communities around the world. The inefficient use of nutrients begs the question, why can the supply not be connected with the demand to allow us to move towards a circular economy for nutrients? 

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