ECN celebrated this year’s International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) through a range of activities, with a webinar (05/05) on the benefits of compost for long-term sustainable soil management in Europe as one of the key highlights.
The webinar explored the scale of bio-waste generated across Europe and what this means for compost production, particularly in relation to soil health and farm resilience under current agricultural stressors. It highlighted the significant potential of compost to support sustainable soil management, while also pointing to the existing gap in bio-waste collection and compost production.
Evidence presented showed that repeated annual compost application can contribute to long-term soil health and nutrient cycling, support farm economics, reduce dependency on mineral fertilisers, and make better use of locally available bio-waste resources and established EU-wide technologies.
The webinar recording can be accessed here, and the presentation is available here.
Further background information about this year’s ICAW theme ‘Compost! Feed the Soil that Feeds Us’ can be assessed on the website the International Compost Alliance of the here.