Fertilizers from sewage sludge: production, quality and applications

Soil health and fertility are increasingly affected by anthropic activity that act on the quality of the environment, and in particular on climate change. In this context, it is of utter importance to preserve all possible sources of organic carbon and nutrients for soil and crops, including sewage sludge. The conference aims to provide an update on the production and applications of sludge based fertilizers, on their characteristics and agronomic properties, as well as highlight the quality requirements necessary to guarantee their safe and environmentally friendly use.

Session Chair

Massimo Centemero, Managing Director CIC

Program

10.00 Introduction of Session Chair: FORUM Biosolid to Soil activity

10.15 Speech of Alberto Confalonieri, Technical Committee CIC

10.30 Speech of Andrea Lanz – ISPRA 

10.45 Speech of Fabrizio Adani, University of Milano – DISAA

11.00 Round Table

Speakers:
Tiziana Vona, CIC, Cisambiente
Tania Tellini, UTILITALIA
Elisabetta Perrotta, Assoambiente

11.40 Fertilizers from sewage sludge: the state of the art and new evidence from the world of research

Hydrocarbons, compost, and sludge: limits and methodological issues
Tiaziano Vendrame, ARPAV (Veneto Regional Agency for Environmental Protection and Prevention)

The modeling approach in defining a risk factor for the use of fertilizers on agricultural soils
Filippo Robbiati, Andrea N. Rossi, A. V. Berri, Progress S.r.l.

12.30 Discussion and conclusions by the Chair