Food waste and football stadiums
What does professional football have to do with food waste? More than you might think.
At the iconic Johan Cruijff ArenA in Amsterdam, a Waste Transformer ADX1 biodigester is quietly turning leftover food waste into clean energy and a powerful natural liquid fertilizer. This innovative, on-site urban solution supports the ArenA’s ambition to be one of the most sustainable stadiums in the world.
To prove the value of the circular fertilizer, professional turf growers and independent scientists, tested it for grass cultivation: with excellent results, and the liquid fertilizer is now a certified liquid natural fertilizer, able to replace polluting chemical fertilizer.
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Certified fertilizer from food waste
While the nearly $200 billion chemical fertilizer market continues to overshadow the $12 billion organic fertilizer market, change is taking root.
At The Waste Transformers, we've spent the past years testing our natural liquid fertilizer—carefully produced in our Waste Transformer from food waste—on professional sports fields similar to many in the Champions League. Backed by expert analysis and now officially recognized and certified as a natural fertilizer by the Dutch government, our food waste-based liquid fertilizer meets the highest standards.
This certification marks a turning point: every municipality, stadium, and business can now produce and use high-quality circular fertilizers from their own food waste streams with a Waste Transformer biodigester, shifting the narrative and linking sustainability with positive impact. For countries with less rain, food waste can become the source of water to keep parks blooming, resort gardens growing and allow to grow food in the desert, without taking scarce water from other resources.
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