Recycle and Reuse of Agricultural Wastes

The Recycle and Reuse of Agricultural Wastes research group aims to improve nutrient and resource recovery.

Agricultural and urban waste management is sub-optimal. Materials regarded as wastes are often valuable co-products and an important source of nutrients and organic matter.

This research group investigates nutrient re-use and recycling and the recovery of other valuable resources from agricultural waste by mitigating reactive nitrogen losses from intensive animal industries, retaining the nutrients in these ‘waste’ materials during subsequent composting/processing and ultimately producing stable, pathogen-free, bio-fertilisers and soil amendments to improve sustainability of agricultural production systems and remediate degraded land.