Recycling nutrients, reducing carbon

The study assesses ecotechnologies for nutrient and carbon recovery in Sweden, Poland, and Finland, finding that most are currently not economically feasible despite their potential for resource reduction and CO2 mitigation, with the exception of anaerobic digestion of agricultural wastes.

• The study utilized a bottom-up cost-benefit analysis (CBA) based on a participatory process with local stakeholders to determine assessment criteria and system boundaries, which the authors argue provides more legitimacy to decisions than traditional feasibility studies.
• Most evaluated ecotechnologies are not economically viable because their costs outweigh their benefits, even when accounting for revenues from recovered products and non-market benefits like reduced eutrophication and CO2 mitigation.
• Among the technologies studied, only the anaerobic digestion of agricultural wastes is considered economically feasible under current conditions, suggesting a need for further incentives to mainstream such technologies.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2021). Recycling nutrients, reducing carbon. https://www.sei.org/publications/recycling-nutrients-reducing-carbon-baltic/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Recycling nutrients, reducing carbon. 2021. https://www.sei.org/publications/recycling-nutrients-reducing-carbon-baltic/.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=Stockholm Environment Institute |title=Recycling nutrients, reducing carbon |date=20 September 2021 |url=https://www.sei.org/publications/recycling-nutrients-reducing-carbon-baltic/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2021recycling, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Recycling nutrients, reducing carbon}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2021}, month = sep, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/recycling-nutrients-reducing-carbon-baltic/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }