Tag: fertilizer
Yara fertilizer factory on strike against plan for 139 layoffs
“Our choice: the environment and employment”, but “Yara chose dismissal”. This is the message of a banner hung on the factory gate, near a fire of pallets and tires. Around…
Our floors are tiled… and the solution is in our trash cans
What is biowaste? These are the remains of your cooking preparations and your plates, even your expired products (apart from their packaging), and what we call green waste, wilted flowers,…
Fertilizer giant Timac Agro in court for its discharge into nature
They are demanding “several tens of thousands of euros” from Timac-Agro. This Thursday, several environmental associations will be present before the environmental center of the Brest court (Finistère) to demand…
Criticized for its pollution, the Yara fertilizer factory will make mass layoffs
The employees are angry. In Montoir-de-Bretagne, near Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), the management of the Yara company has announced the upcoming transformation of its agricultural fertilizer production site. A decision which will…
Recycling: How human feces and urine can be turned into fertilizer – Bavaria
Life is not possible without phosphorus. But the resources of this important mineral are dwindling. A special technology is therefore used in the sewage treatment plant in Neuburg an der…
Hoeing and grooming instead of chemicals – Bavaria
It is a return to what used to work without chemicals: more and more farmers are turning to hoeing and harrowing – in order to save on pesticides and fertilizers…
Festival-goers’ urine will be collected to make fertilizer
Nothing is lost and everything is transformed, even the urine of festival-goers. In 2015, Roskilde, the biggest festival in Denmark, had the somewhat crazy idea of collecting the pee of…
A pressing desire for growth for the company which produces agricultural fertilizer based on human urine
Only four years after the creation of Toopi Organics, which collects human urine and transforms it into agricultural biofertilizer, the development of the company is accelerating, in particular thanks to…
UN offers Russia relief for fertilizer exports
Status: 08.09.2023 8:29 p.m According to media reports, the UN Secretary General wants to make the sanctioned export of Russian fertilizer easier again. The aim is to persuade the Kremlin…
Nettle manure: Natural fertilizer and good against aphids
force of nature Natural fertilizer and good against pests: How to make nettle manure The shoots of the “big nettle” (Urtica dioica) are best suited for liquid manure © Zbynek…