Digestate Use in Landscaping and Regeneration Projects

Key points

Both the digestate and the synthetic fertiliser applications increased the levels of soil available nitrogen

Fibre digestate supplies good amounts of organic matter and higher amounts of valuable nutrients than composts

The material needs to be properly matured and incorporated into the soil, before plants are established in time for when their nitrogen requirements are greatest.

Overview

In spring 2012 WRAP commissioned a series of demonstration trials designed to evaluate the use of food-based digestate across a diverse range of markets in the landscape and regeneration sectors. This included growing energy crops on brownfield sites and the production and maintenance of sports turf.

This final project bulletin includes a review of the results and conclusions from four projects in the programme, as well as a discussion of practical recommendations from the research teams.

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Introduction >>
Regeneration Sector >>
Higher value markets >>
In summary >>

To find information related to that contained in this report, please use the following links:

Digestate use in landscape and regeneration >>
Using compost and digestate >>