Project Details
Description
The Netherlands has a very organized and centralized system of Dairy that is highly efficient in its milk and meat production. But being a small nation with high concentration of cows, this excess cow dung has led to:
- GHG emissions from surplus cow dung produced in the Netherlands and collected as slurry
- Nitrates and phosphates polluting the groundwater
- Livestock feed accounts for >70% of the agriculture produce leading to high protein diet for cows which inturn leads to more nitrogen in the dung
- Reducing the size of their livestock may be the only way to handle surplus cow dung if we don't find urgent cleantech innovations for it
If through a material innovation, we can utilize the surplus cow dung and generate value added products like sustainable material composites and/or finished products, it can fuel the circular economy in both the Netherlands and India.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 1/01/21 → 31/12/21 |