Farmers had one of the first opportunities at the Royal Welsh on July 19 to find out about a unique new biomass waste recycling facility designed to transform the way the country tackles climate change.
The new purpose-designed facility at Aberystwyth University’s Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences has been built with funding help of nearly £180,000 from the Welsh Assembly Government.
It is the only one of its kind in the UK and designed and built to ‘burn’ a variety of grasses, organic waste and wood without oxygen through a process called pyrolysis to improve ways of producing ‘biochar’
Biochar is a fine-grained, highly porous, charcoal-like substance rich in carbon that can be used to improve soil fertility and raise agricultural productivity.
It can also be used for atmospheric carbon capture and storage ─ as a ‘carbon sink’ ─ reducing greenhouse gas emissions and locking carbon back into the soil to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions.
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