14th December 2017: The UK Government Office for Science and Department for Environment, Food & Affairs today published ”From Waste to Resource Productivity” which is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/from-waste-to-resource-productivity Chapter 6, of Case Studies and Evidence was written by the AgroCycle team based in UCD, have a read here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/667480/from-waste-to-resource-productivity-evidence-case-studies.pdf

On the 16th October, Professor Shane Ward spoke at the Harnessing Research and Innovation for FOOD 2030 Science Policy Dialogue that took place in Brussels. Shane represented AgroCycle at the Circularity & Resource Efficiency session that was held in the afternoon and you can watch the entire session here. Shane spoke about adding technology to the […]

Recently, the Biorefine Cluster Europe published an article that one of the students working on our project wrote. Ciara Beausang summarised what our project partners in Greece, DEMETER are doing on the project. The full article can be found here.   AgroCycle is evaluating agri-food waste value chains including a wide range of valorisation pathways […]

On the 18th October, AgroCycle partners, EUBIA hosted our most recent meeting in Brussels. It was an eventful day and great to catch up with all partners. Each work package leader presented on the day which allowed for lots of discussion around the project results etc. to date.

On the 17th October, we also held our Agri-Food Waste Day conference which was a joint venture with H2020 Project NoAW. We were delighted that the European Commission were in a position to host the conference at their Madou Building in Brussels. It was an excellent day that facilitated the unique opportunity to discuss our two […]

Ciara Beausang (School of Biosystems and Food Engineering, University College Dublin) represented AgroCycle at the recent Agriforvalor Study visit to Hungary. Agriforvalor is a Horizon 2020 funded project which aims to enhance biomass valorisation by bringing together relevant practitioners from agriculture and forestry with research and academia to form multi-actor partnership networks. Agriforvalor has organised […]

We here at AgroCycle have joined forces with NoAW (another H2020 project) to host a conference in Brussels on the 17th October.  The Agri-Food Waste Day Conference will bring together innovators, educators, policy makers, public and private industries to discuss circular economy challenges and activities in the agri-food sectors. The event will take the opportunity to teach […]

Over the coming weeks and months, AgroCycle partners will be representing our project at the following events: Victoria Wood (AgroCycle & Harper Adams University) will be presenting at the RGC-IBG Annual International Conference 2017 in London on August 30th with her paper entitled “Business models for sustainability in food waste management in the food retail […]