Turning roadside grass into value for soils, cities and the circular economy

Great read in EU Research article: “Getting the value out of roadside grass” on significant potential of roadside grass biomass as a feedstock for producing biomethane, biochar, mulch, and biobased packaging materials.

The roadside grass can be transformed into biomethane and digestate. Digestate can be refined into soil improvers or fertilisers. This is exactly the pathway Kekkilä-BVB is keen to advance as part of our circular materials strategy.

The project partners HoSt Group bioenergy, Kekkilä-BVB, Fûns Skjinne Fryske Enerzjy (FSFE), D4. lead by Auke Smet behind the work shows how better collection, preprocessing and fermentation can unlock a new, local feedstock that reduces waste handling costs and replaces fossil based inputs. “For us at Kekkilä-BVB, the digestate fraction is especially promising as a locally sourced, quality controlled raw material for future growing media and soil improvement solutions” says Adrie Veeken, who has been in the project team from the first beginning.