News » HELCOM Ministerial Declaration commits to nutrient recycling strategy

20.08.2018

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The Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) annual Ministerial Meeting2018 has committed to elaborate, by 2020, a ?Nutrient Recycling Strategyaiming to reduce nutrient inputs to the Baltic Sea?. The Ministerial Declarationacknowledges progress in reducing Baltic pollution, but reminds thatthe Baltic is ?still heavily affected by eutrophication? and thatmaximum allowable phosphorus and nitrogen inputs are exceeded in mostsub-basins. The Nutrient Recycling Strategy is one of 10 actions agreed,along with eutrophication, hazardous substances, underwater noise,climate change, litter ? circular economy, seabed damage, biodiversity,ecosystem approach and governance. The Nutrient Recycling Strategy willfocus on measures at source, recycling of nutrients in manure and sewagesludge, ensuring environmentally safe recycling, develop guidance onrisk assessment and on technological processes, identify Baltic regionalchallenges and identify common visions and objectives for nutrientrecycling.

HELCOM 2018 Ministerial Declaration, 6 March 2018 www.tinyurl.com/yb4pwfry

 

 

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