Hi all
My name is Katie Meehan and I work as a Product and Service Designer for Severn Trent. As a company which is constantly striving to do the right thing in order to help respond to our ever changing climate, we have identified an opportunity using new technology to develop a new environmental and carbon friendly fertiliser from our biosolid waste.
I am reaching out on the farming forum because we are in relatively early phases of development and would like to put our potential customers like yourselves at the heart of our new product and develop it alongside you and your needs. Your expertise and unique perspective would really help us develop and drive the fertiliser further.
A bit about the proposed fertiliser product:
If you would like to learn more or discuss over the phone please contact me at [email protected] and if you would be interested in providing further more detailed feedback please go on our survey monkey https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/7RJKF8C
Thanks
Katie
My name is Katie Meehan and I work as a Product and Service Designer for Severn Trent. As a company which is constantly striving to do the right thing in order to help respond to our ever changing climate, we have identified an opportunity using new technology to develop a new environmental and carbon friendly fertiliser from our biosolid waste.
I am reaching out on the farming forum because we are in relatively early phases of development and would like to put our potential customers like yourselves at the heart of our new product and develop it alongside you and your needs. Your expertise and unique perspective would really help us develop and drive the fertiliser further.
A bit about the proposed fertiliser product:
- We have utilised carbon capture technology in sewage treatment processes to create a sustainable pelletised organic fertiliser from waste.
- We have partnered with CCm Technologies to use captured carbon dioxide to stabilise nitrogen, phosphates and organic chemicals contained in waste and turn it into plant nutrients.
- The project at our plant near Birmingham represents the first time the technology has been applied to the wastewater treatment process.
- By transforming those nutrients that are held in the sludge into a balanced fertilizer formulation, they can be introduced back into the environment in a controlled and beneficial way so that they're producing growth in agricultural crops with no other harmful side effects.
- The process saves carbon in two ways - the first is by the direct capture of carbon dioxide from gas streams. The second by drawing out primary nutrients from waste materials.
- Out of this process we get this pelletized organic fertilizer, that's as good as any commercial mineral fertilizer, but with a much, much lower carbon footprint.
- It’s an experimental programme devised to produce a 5 percent nitrogen, a 10 percent nitrogen and a high carbon (Carbon Max) formulation.
- We also have our press release which you can find here: https://www.severntrent.com/media/news-releases/severn-trent-recycles-waste-into--super-fertiliser--using-world-/
If you would like to learn more or discuss over the phone please contact me at [email protected] and if you would be interested in providing further more detailed feedback please go on our survey monkey https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/7RJKF8C
Thanks
Katie