Context

The project intends to offer a cross service adrressed to the whole region, in order to provide a solution to the problems arising from the improper management of waste from the whole livestock sector, represented by different species (beef, pigs, sheep, goats and rabbits). Inadequate management of livestock waste can have a negative impact on the environment, primarily due to the so-called polluting action on the ground and the aquifers, due to the spillage of slurries from farms. The pollutants and eutrophic substances present in the slurry can reach the underground aquifers and rivers by land drainage. Secondly, this problem also affects the deterioration of air quality (odor, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, fine dust) and has important repercussions on the greenhouse effect (carbon dioxide emission, methane, nitrogen oxide). In addition, along with livestock waste, the waste products derived from agri-food industries will be also addressed to the bioconversion process, in order to offer a strategy for the enhancement of these matrices and to improve the physical and nutritional characteristics of livestock waste (increased degree of compactness and nutrient content).

Additional comments

Results deriving from the proposed action have the great advantage to be improved in the next future. Indeed, the dissemination of the results will be conceived as itinernat In order to transfer the proposed technology directly to the field and to confront the different territorial realities. The beneficiaries of the action will have the opportunity to know about technology, to see their potential and to receive technical assistance from industry experts in order to equip themselves in the future with a complete facility for the disposal of organic waste through the proposed technology

Additional information

The proposal is well correlated with the needs expressed in the Focus Area 5 - Sustainable use of biological resources for energy and industrial purposes. The bioindustry is identified as the core of European bio-economy for the transformation of residual biomasses, with the broad spectrum of new and / or competitive products with conventional counterparts. Improvement in production efficiency is encouraged through the development of processes that can exploit and value the organic fraction of waste.
Moreover the proposal is well correlated with the "Piano strategico per l’innovazione e la ricerca nel settore agricolo, alimentare e forestale 2014/2020 MIPAAF". In fact, the pressure arising from the growing demand for biomass can be met through the more aware use of marginal rural areas and through the improvement in the efficiency of zootechnical production by developing innovative processes that can exploit and value mainly organic fractions waste, such as livestock waste and the by-products of the agri-food sector. Based on the definition of this development trajectory, it is possible to co-exist large biorefinery, already consolidated, capable of producing a wide variety of innovative products and smaller units, such as the proposed basic bioconversion unit, at this stage realized locally, more specifically directed towards the production of individual innovative products.