Numero del progetto: 26.19.15.01.02_REUSE

REUSE: riciclaggio dei rifiuti urbani e industriali in agricoltura: verso un'economia circolare

The production synthetic fertilizers requires high demand of energy from fossil fuels. In this project we test the feasibility of recycling of industrial and urban wastes as fertilizers or soil amendments. The first objective aims at recycling clean wood ashes as K fertilizer. The second goal aims at testing the recycling of frass (a by-product from insect rearing) as fertilizer/biostimulant for arable crops and for vegetables/fruits production. The third goal is the recycling of animal ashes as clean P fertilizer. The fourth goal concerns the recycling of ligneous residues as soil amendment to increase organic matter. The fifth goal is to assess the environmental efficiency of innovative soil improvers derived from municipal organic residues and okara. The sixth goal of the project aimts at recycling struvite-containing deposits from a wastewater treatment plant as P fertilizer. The REUSE project brings together different expertise within Agroscope that will allow to study the effects of recycled products in terms of both crop nutrition and soil health.

Cognome, Nome Sede
Bragazza Luca Changins
Mayer Jochen Reckenholz
Wollmann Iris Reckenholz

Fontana M., Bragazza L., Elfouki S., Masson S., Gfeller A., Boivin P., Sauzet O.
Can ligneous residues be recycled for weed control?
Frontiers in Agronomy, 8, 2026, Articolo 1789426.

Fontana M., Elfouki S., Garcia Franco N., Guillaume T., Steiner S., Bragazza L.
The recycling of mealworm (Tenebrio molitor L.) frass as biofertilizer: Effects on soil fertility, biomass growth and nitrogen uptake of spring wheat.
Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, 5, (1), 2026, Articolo e70150.

Wollmann I., Albin F., Mayer J.
Co-vergorenes Struvit im Kompost: Ein Recyclingdünger für den Ökologischen Landbau.
In: Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau. 06. März, Ed. WITA, Bonn (DE). 2026.

Wollmann I., Albin F.
Phosphor: Vom Abwasser auf den Acker.
UFA-Revue, 1, 2026, 9-11.
altre lingue: francese