Fertilisers from fish processing and aquaculture production waste: An ecofriendly alternative for crop production?
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The production of mineral fertilisers causes several sustainability issues: while the manufacturing of nitrogen fertilisers requires high energy input, phosphorus fertilisers depend on the extraction of phosphate rock from finite deposits (Zhang, Akyol, and Meers 2023). In a circular economy, fertiliser production should thus be shifted towards the valorisation of so far unused biowaste streams from various sources (Chojnacka, Moustakas, and Witek-Krowiak 2020; Zhang, Akyol, and Meers 2023). An increasingly important waste stream originates from fish processing and aquaculture production. In this study, we analyse the environmental impacts of the production and application of bio-based fertilisers (BBFs) produced from fish processing and aquaculture waste and compare them to the production and use of mineral fertiliser.
Authors: Landert, Jan, VIALLE, Claire, Fabre, Jean-François, Caroline, SABLAYROLLES, Teixeira, Diogo, Monteiro, Helena, Bald, Carlos, Iñarra, Bruno, de Baan, Laura
Language: English
Subfield: Waste Management and Disposal
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: European Commission
OpenAlex ID: W6930809965
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