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Coffee grounds against soil impoverishment

The Dutch drink approximately 40 million cups of coffee a day. This represents only 0.2% of the coffee bean. The rest remains as coffee grounds. Approximately 500,000 kg of coffee grounds and 33 t...

Organic waste flows on the soil: what are the legal implications?

This blog series is about our "Back to the Soil" project, in which we investigate whether various organic waste streams can be used as soil improvers in arable farming and how this can be legally a...

Waste legislation: what is waste?

This blog series is about our "Back to the Soil" project, in which we investigate whether several organic waste streams can be used as soil improvers in arable farming and how this can be legally m...

From plan to experiment: the legal waste stream soap

This blog series is about our "Back to the Soil" project, in which we investigate whether several organic waste streams can be used as soil improvers in arable farming and how this can be legally a...

Organic waste flows on the soil: why?

Most people don't think about soil on a daily basis. Understandably. It's a brown mess, it gets your hands dirty, and it's not very exciting to look at. Yet, soil is so much more than that, and ...

update 1: pot tests, collecting residual flows and spreading

This blog series is about our "Back to the Soil" project, in which we investigate whether several organic waste streams can be used as soil improvers in arable farming and how this can be legally i...

Back to the Bottom: The Plan

One plus one equals two: on the one hand, organic streams are available and incinerated with residual waste, and on the other, there's a shortage of these same organic streams. Reason enough to ex...

Blog series Back to the Soil: organic waste flows, waste legislation and soil research

This blog series is about our "Back to the Soil" project, in which we investigate whether several organic waste streams can be used as soil improvers in arable farming and how this can be legall...