Performance-based criteria for safe and circular digestate use in agriculture
Thuane Mendes Anacleto, Helena Rodrigues Oliveira, Giacomo Carraro, Polina Skvortsova, Luka Šafarič, Sepehr Yekta Shakeri, Annika Björn, Érika Flávia Machado Pinheiros, Alex Enrich-Prast · 2025
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Description
Thuane Mendes Anacleto and eight colleagues published a farming and environment study in two thousand twenty-five on the safe use of digestate. Digestate is the rich leftover sludge from making biogas out of organic waste. Spread on fields it feeds crops, but some batches harm young plants.
The team tested digestate from twenty-three full-scale plants in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. They measured seed sprouting alongside chemical content in whole, liquid, and solid portions. Three measures predicted harm to seedlings: ammonia nitrogen, potassium, and boron. When all three passed set limits, sprouting fell below half in every case. The authors propose a simple pass-or-fail screen based on these three values, with fixes such as blending or treatment for batches that fail.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Thuane Mendes Anacleto, Helena Rodrigues Oliveira, Giacomo Carraro, Polina Skvortsova, Luka Šafarič, Sepehr Yekta Shakeri, Annika Björn, Érika Flávia Machado Pinheiros, Alex Enrich-Prast |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |