At the end of 2021, the DECISIVE project, which involved 14 European entities, was completed.
AERIS, a spin-off from the UAB that provides services and develops advanced technologies in the environmental field, has published the conclusions on their project website, DECISIVE, where they discuss the process followed for the proper development of the research.
As AERIS explains: "In recent times, there has been a growing migratory movement of the population toward cities, leading to an increase in urban population, resulting in an excessive demand for food and energy in cities. As a result, waste generation has intensified in recent years, making its management increasingly complex and demanding in technical and economic terms. To reduce environmental impact and improve city resilience against possible energy or food scarcity events, new tools are needed to facilitate the prevention and local valorization of waste."
The project has allowed the development and testing of a decentralized model for managing food waste, producing locally from these energy and high-value bioproducts that can be used in urban or peri-urban agriculture. The project's development was structured in two simultaneous and complementary stages. The first involved a stage of consolidating concepts and tools to validate the methods and processes that will allow the establishment of a decentralized network of waste recovery plants. The second stage was a demonstration aimed at testing the efficacy of the developed concepts and processes.
You can find more information at: http://www.decisive2020.eu/ and an illustrative video at: http://www.decisive2020.eu/videos
Original news from AERIS.
