Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
ENEA Atlas for development cooperation
Technologies
Community eco-composter
Per il raggiungimento degli obiettivi:
Goals: 12. Resp. consumption/production
Sector: Services
Description
ENEA designs and develops models of sustainable waste management to produce compost to be used as fertilizer in agriculture. In developing countries these models can be applied to waste collection, recycling, treatment and disposal activities that can be integrated and adjusted to local needs. Specifically: community composting, particularly in urban and peri-urban areas (urban gardens), and promoting soil fertility recovery in the countryside
Benefits and Advantages:
- Low cost and easy application
- compost production
- Development of qualified jobs
ENEA Service:
- technical support
- consulting
- training
- design
- technology transfer targeted at compost production systems
ENEA Activities:
ENEA has designed and developed a small-sized community composter for recovery and exploitation of the on-site treatment of organic fractions in Favignana Island under the pilot project ”Smart Islands”. Such a technology can easily be transferred to small contexts as those of Small Island Developing States (SIDS).