In the latest issue of SCOPE we look at, among other issues:
P-recovery success stories in Europe
Willem Schipper, WS Consulting and Global Phosphate Forum, emphasised that there is considerable potential for recovering and recycling phosphorus from sewage, slaughter waste and manures, wherever these cannot be used locally because of geographical concentration of populations and livestock production.
Implementing policies for phosphorus
Phosphorus will also be impacted by the European Commission’s “Legislative proposal to review recycling and other waste related targets in the EU” through the proposed objective to ban by 2015 landfilling of recyclable wastes, given that phosphorus rich wastes such as sewage sludge incineration ash or meat and bone ash are “recyclable” (the phosphorus content can be recovered and recycled).