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Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
ENEA Atlas for development cooperation

Community eco-composter

For achieving the objectives:
goal 12

Description

ENEA designs and develops models of sustainable waste management to produce compost to be used as fertilizer in agriculture. In developing countries these models can be applied to waste collection, recycling, treatment and disposal activities that can be integrated and adjusted to local needs. Specifically: community composting, particularly in urban and peri-urban areas (urban gardens), and promoting soil fertility recovery in the countryside

Benefits and Advantages:

  • Low cost and easy application
  • compost production
  • Development of qualified jobs

ENEA Service:

  • technical support
  • consulting
  • training
  • design
  • technology transfer targeted at compost production systems

ENEA Activities:

ENEA has designed and developed a small-sized community composter for recovery and exploitation of the on-site treatment of organic fractions in Favignana Island under the pilot project ”Smart Islands”. Such a technology can easily be transferred to small contexts as those of Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

Sectors

140 - Water supply and sanitation
14050 - Waste management/disposal

SDGs Target

12.2 Achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources

Refecences

Department for Sustainability

Contacts

Published: 29/09/2017
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