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MAt i Cirkulära RObusta system

One third of all agricultural crops are imported into the city through the food we consume. Nutrition ends up in food waste and toilet. By building systems are separated at source and that utilize the flow of nutrition, we can ensure that the valuable nutrients are returned to agriculture.

Aim and goal

Development of sustainable, robust systems for the procurement and processing of the city's organic residues will provide good conditions for the recycle of food.

Challenge

Although research, development and technology around source separated wastewater and food waste systems have been ongoing for several years, questions remain and that needs to be investigated in order to achieve broad acceptance of the systems.

Solution

Knowledge of the entire chain of nutrient circulation in sewage from apartments to agriculture will be established in the participating municipalities and give them knowledge and capacity to utilize nutrients for a future major expansion of source sorting systems. The project will spread knowledge as well as contribute to technology development.

Effect

The project is expected to receive great attention and that the solutions will be so successful in the participating municipalities that they will be spread the solutions to other municipalities in Sweden, where a number of major projects that densification of the city that will be carried out in the next few decades. Similarly, there are a large number of former summer holyday resorts areas that are getting permanent population (of the type Munga Västerås). Here, new VA business areas will be introduced, which can advantageously be expanded with source separated solutions. Internationally there are major urban construction projects in Europe, Asia and South America. There are opportunities for Swedish companies to export a system solution with source seperated systems and we are facing even bigger developments than we see in Sweden

Summary

Project name

MACRO

Status

Completed

RISE role in project

Koordinator och arbetspaketsledare

Project start

Duration

December 2018

Total budget

16 410 987 kr

Partner

Again Nutrient Recovery, Avfall Sverige, Disperator, Ecoloop, HSB, Knivsta kommuns, LRF, LTH, Matavfallssystem Sverige , SLU, Stockholmshem, Stockholmsstad, Svenskt vatten, Sweco, SWR

Funders

Vinnova

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Coordinators

Supports the UN sustainability goals

6. Clean water and sanitation
11. Sustainable cities and communities

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