Swedish environmental company Ragn-Sells, through its innovation subsidiary EasyMining, has been granted 1.8 million euros from the European Union. The project’s objective is to develop a patented circular method for recovering nitrogen from sewage water and allowing it to be used again as agricultural fertilizer. The method is an important breakthrough, says expert Anders Finnson.
Swedish circularity company Ragn-Sells has been invited to participate at the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid. At the conference, Ragn-Sells will highlight transition to a circular economy as key to countering climate change.
Ragn-Sells participates in the WTO meeting in Geneva today on November 27. The topic of the meeting is how trade barriers, especially for materials which has been classified as waste, stand in the way of the transition to a circular economy. - To be able to cope with the fight against climate change, a circular economy is essential, says Ragn-Sells sustainability manager Pär Larshans.
In line with EU's growth strategy for a resource-efficient Europe, Ragn-Sells launches its new Resource Efficiency certificate, reThink. Through the certificate, Ragn-Sells will help its customers become more resource efficient and thereby support the transition to a circular economy.
The Swedish environmental company Ragn-Sells, through its innovation company EasyMining, has been granted a 19 MSEK investment from the European Union’s LIFE programme for commercializing its patented method for removing nitrogen from sewage water. The circular solution enables water treatment facilities to capture nitrogen and use it as a fertilizer, thereby reducing emissions of greenhouse gas.
As research and development manager at EasyMining, Ragn-Sells' innovation company, Yariv Cohen has been involved in producing several patented processes representing the future of waste processing. ”It is really exciting to be part of an industry of the future where we can recover commercial, clean products from waste”, Yariv says.
Ragn-Sells-owned NC Miljø in Denmark is first to recycle plastic from organic waste. The convenience store chain Netto is the first to use the recycled plastic and thanks to the new technology can offer its customers circular bin-liners, made from the company’s own organic waste.
The environmental company Ragn-Sells is now launching a new technique to extract pure salts from the fly ash which is produced when waste is incinerated. The global patent, Ash2Salt, enables valuable resources to be utilised, at the same time as the hazardous fly ash can be dealt with safely. The salts can be used as road salt and in fertilizer production, among other things.
With several global patents for phosphorus recovery and examples of successful collaborations, Ragn-Sells and EasyMining are invited to speak at the World Resources Forum taking place in Belgium on February 26.
The formerly announced collaboration on phosphorus recovery between the environmental company Ragn-Sells and the state owned mining company LKAB is now taking the next step. LKAB will invest SEK 45 million in the continued feasibility study and pilot facilities in Malmfälten and Uppsala, Sweden.
Ragn-Sells innovation company EasyMining and the Danish company BIOFOS have signed a Memorandum of understanding (MoU) for long-term cooperation on phosphorous recovery from incinerated sewage sludge. The partnership will reduce Denmark's imports of the critical raw material phosphorus by up to 10 percent.
The Swedish Government recently convened its new panel of experts in relation to the terms of reference on non-toxic and circular recovery of phosphorus from sewage sludge. One of the experts on the panel is Ragn-Sells’ Lisa Wigh, agronomist and business developer with the focus on resource recovery from sewage sludge.
