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A ground-breaking project with the potential to transform how you feed your crops and dramatically cut food waste has just got underway. CPM reports on the mindset change that’s driving the circular economy. Climate change and soil erosion have moved up the agenda and that’s led to a seed change in how waste materials are viewed. By Tom Allen-Stevens A much-quoted statistic, and one over which Society beats itself up, is that around a third of all food produced by the world’s farms is wasted. So wouldn’t it make sense if that food waste was recycled back into agriculture? It seems a logical and simple equation, but in reality it’s not – food waste is a bulky material with a high water content and a fair degree of inconsistency. That’s before you’ve even addressed regulatory issues. So this apparently simple solution is a far cry from a potential replacement to the bagged nutrients you currently rely on to feed your crops. London has an estimated 2M tonnes of food waste that could be turned into a novel green fertiliser. That could all be set to change, however. In 2019, the transnational waste management group Veolia joined forces with global…
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