Terraforming LIFE aims to develop a new method for producing eco-friendly fertilizer and biofuel from the sludge waste generated by land-based aquaculture and agriculture. The project is a collaboration between First Water, the Icelandic Farmers’ Association, Orkídea, Ölfus Cluster, and SMJ from the Faroe Islands, and has received funding from the EU Environment and Climate Action Programme.
The future of agriculture depends on the progress of environmental sustainability. Through collaboration and innovation, we can create a sustainable future for agriculture.
A new approach to sustainability
Terraforming LIFE's objective is to design and develop new technologies and methods to create an Integrated Agriculture Aquaculture system where aquaculture, agriculture farmers, and agriculturists are at the heart of a circular economy.
While making fertilizer as superfood for mother earth the whole project will have powerful and positive impact on numerous environmental issues.
Transforming waste into resources
A combination of processed sludge and animal manure will be transported by a mobile treatment unit to a bio-fertilizer plant. It will be boosted with digestate from any dead-fish that unavoidably perish during the rearing, and eventually dried to create a powerful natural fertilizer and biogas.
This project optimizes a new water recycling technology (Sideflow), complementary to the “Flow-Through System with Reuse” (FTS-R) aquaculture system.
Both CAPEX and OPEX will be below any other high-tech aquaculture system while maximising the amount of nutrients of fish sludge
Terraforming LIFE partnerships
