FER-PLAY

Multi-assessment of alternative fertilisers for promoting local sustainable value chains and clean ecosystems

With the official title “Multi-assessment of alternative fertilisers for promoting local sustainable value chains and clean ecosystems“, FER-PLAY aims to gather, harmonise, select and complement the knowledge on alternative fertiliser value chains and diffuse it to promote the wide-scale production and application of alternative fertilisers with best environmental, social and economic performance as well as technical and regulatory viability.  

In a step-by-step process, the project maps and selects viable and sustainable alternative fertilisers value chains, using the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment method to determine the strongest contenders along environmental, economic, social acceptance, regulatory, and technical grounds. 

FER-PLAY is tapping into various networks to engage stakeholders in co-creation processes to share their needs to increase the uptake and impact of results and ensure the proposed alternative fertilisers value chains find an enabling regulatory environment, and willing producers and end-users. 

The role of DRAXIS is to carry out the Life Cycle Assessments of the environmental and economic performance of the feather meal and struvite from industrial wastewater, as well as to investigate exploitation pathways for existing and new fertilizers.