Sound data alliance – phosphorus flow analyses and monitoring

Sound data alliance – phosphorus flow
analyses and monitoring
Kimo van Dijk, Wageningen University, kimo.vandijk@wur.nl
Ottavia Zoboli, TU Wien, zoboli@hydro.tuwien.ac.at
2nd European Sustainable Phosphorus Conference,
Berlin, Germany, 6 March 2015

Phosphorus flow analyses studies
 Agronomic nutrient balance studies
● Gross nutrient balances (Eurostat/EEA)
● Spatial explicit (e.g. JRC)
● Miterra / Integrator (Wageningen UR)
 Material/substance/P flow analyses studies
● EU-15: Ott and Rechberger (2012)
● EU-27: Van Dijk et al. (submitted)
● National level: Austria, Belgium (Flanders),
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands,
Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK
● City level: often not published

EC Raw Material System Analysis: P-Rock
 Study on Data Inventory for a Raw Material System
Analysis: Roadmap and Test of the Fully Operational MSA
for Raw Materials
 MSA definition:
The project applies material system analysis (MSA)
which consists of a map of the flows of materials
through the economy, as raw materials or as parts of
basic materials, components or products, in terms of
entry into the economy (extraction and import),
movement through the economy (production,
consumption, exports), additions to stock, and end-
of-life through either disposal or recovery. MSA also
includes information on the sustainability of the use of
materials and the security of supply.

EC Raw Material System Analysis: P-Rock
 P-rock versus P versus P4
 First general and uniform picture, no balancing
 Public monitoring tool
 Three years before next update
 Data preference:
● 1. publicly accessible sources with some guarantee
of quality and regular update (Eurostat, BGS, etc.)
● 2. scientific studies, free company reports;
● 3. models;
● 4. commercial sources

Phosphorus use in the EU-27 in 2005
Detergent,
wood, paper
& fibres
Crops, fish,
food products &
mineral additives
Animal feed,
mineral additives
& live animals
Mineral fertiliser,
seeds & pesticides
Solid & liquid
organic waste
Organic waste
Wood, paper &
fibres
Slaughter
residues, solid &
liquid waste
Crops &
food products
Manure losses
Live animals
Leaching & runoff
Seeding materials
Input Output
Soil [150,000]
Flows & stocks in Gg = Mkg = kton P per year

Data & methods used
 As detailed as data allows: 96 sub flows
 Imports, exports, losses and internal flows
 Main data sources: Miterra-Europe, CAPRI, FAOSTAT,
Eurostat, reports, articles and experts
 For EU-27 and individual Member States
 Time series if present in data (e.g. FAOSTAT, Eurostat)
 Data for 2005 complete and checked, other base years
possible with additional data input
 Entire food system + non-food (e.g. forestry, detergents,
pet food, etc.)
 EU-27 corrections for intra/extra trade
 Raw data is balanced based on mass balance principle

Phosphorus monitoring challenges
 Unclear definitions and not enough detail in data
 Data quality: trade > production > consumption > recycling
 Data gaps for waste flows and (new) recycling flows
 Eurostat data is incomplete and inconsistent
 Report/article data mostly not recent and specific base years
 Trade databases not available for all products/materials
 Data gaps requires balancing the data
 Uncertainties for most data unknown
 Industry data not publically available, sometimes
commercially, but no peer reviewed

Thank you for
your attention
Questions? Comments? Suggestions?
kimo.vandijk@wur.nl / kimovandijk@xs4all.nl
Twitter: @kimovandijk
Website: kimovandijk.weebly.com

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