Recycling nutrients, reducing carbon

A research paper by the Stockholm Environment Institute evaluating the sustainability and economic feasibility of ecotechnologies for recovering carbon and nutrients in Sweden, Poland, and Finland using a bottom-up cost-benefit analysis.

• 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.
• The research focused on three case study catchments: domestic wastewater in Sweden and Poland, and manure, grass, and blackwater substrates in Finland.
• Economic analysis indicates that the costs of the evaluated ecotechnologies generally outweigh their benefits, including revenues from recovered products and non-market goods like CO2 mitigation and reduced eutrophication; only the anaerobic digestion of agricultural wastes was found to be economically feasible under current conditions.

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} }