best available technologies for manure treatment - Baltic Green Belt

Best Available Technologies for manure treatment baltic sea 2020
FOREWORD
FOREWORD
One main objective for Baltic Sea 2020 is to reduce the eutrophication
of the Baltic Sea. The reduction of nutrient leakage from intensive
livestock farms to the Baltic Sea, through technical development
and spreading information on “Best Available Technologies” is one
important activity to reach this objective.
This report with findings and recommendations concerning “Best
Available Technologies for Manure Treatment” is produced by Henning
Lyngsø Foged and his colleagues at the Innovation Centre for
Bioenergy and Environmental Technology (CBMI), commissioned by
Baltic Sea 2020.
The report focuses on leaching of nutrients from the huge
amounts of manure produced by intensive rearing of pigs in the
EU Member States of the Baltic Sea catchment area, and evaluates
the technological solutions to reduce this leaching. The report does
not evaluate the leaching reduction potential of agricultural practices,
such as spreading techniques, timing of spreading, buffer areas,
wetlands etc. These important measures are discussed by many other
actors involved in reducing eutrophication in the Baltic Sea.
Baltic Sea 2020 will promote the recommended technologies
within the Baltic Sea catchment area. We hope that other organisations,
institutes and authorities will find the report useful and apply
its findings, for example in the review process of the IPPC Directive
and its reference documents, in agricultural advisory services, within
the Baltic Sea Strategy and within the multiple ongoing projects
aiming to develop intensive animal production within the Baltic Sea
region in an environmentally sustainable way.
Stockholm January 2010
Conrad Stralka
Executive Director Baltic Sea 2020
Lotta Samuelson
Project Manager Baltic Sea 2020
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