COMPO EXPERT recently participated in a specialist exchange organized by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) on the topic of phosphorus recycling from sewage sludge ashes.

In the frame of our sustainability ambitions, utilizing recycled phosphorus is one of our central targets, as phosphorus is one of the three main elements in plant nutrition, and thus a major lever on our path to sustainable fertilization. For this, COMPO EXPERT fully supports the AMPHORE-Project as an associated partner (Sustainability | COMPO EXPERT (compo-expert.com)).

Sewage sludge ashes can become a readily available source for recycling with a high phosphorus content of 14% P₂O₅. Those ashes alone have the potential to substitute more than two thirds of Germany’s currently mined phosphate demand for fertilization.

Using this potential to return the phosphorus from the waste stream back into the nutrient cycle is a common goal, COMPO EXPERT shares with the BMUV.

COMPO EXPERT encourages the near-term realization of phosphorus recycling sites to not only fulfill the obligation for P-recycling from 2029 on, but to take the next step towards sustainable fertilization.

For this, COMPO EXPERT fully supports and co-signed the common statement now published by the Ministry for the Environment aiming to accelerate the provision of P-Recycling resources.