Preliminary results on food waste valorization into soil organic amendments and their agronomic effects

The study focuses on the comparison of different organic amendments, like compost, biochar, digestate, and composted digestate, to evaluate the impact of their productive processes and their agronomic effects and to demonstrate their beneficial contribution to plant growth and their feasible use to replace chemical fertilizers. The same input biomass is used for all the treatments, i.e., the Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste (OFMSW) coming from a real collecting and treatment plant.