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    The document presents the U.K. Phosphorus Flow Map, which shows the amount of phosphorus entering the U.K. each year and where it travels through the system. It shows that 185kt of phosphorus is imported annually, with 89.5kt ending up in crops and fodder, 26kt in waste, and 33.3kt in waterbodies. The proposed flow map outlines ways to improve agricultural phosphorus use, increase waste usage as fertilizer, reduce animal products to lower phosphorus requirements, and remove phosphorus from water to prevent eutrophication.

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    The document presents the U.K. Phosphorus Flow Map, which shows the amount of phosphorus entering the U.K. each year and where it travels through the system. It shows that 185kt of phosphorus is imported annually, with 89.5kt ending up in crops and fodder, 26kt in waste, and 33.3kt in waterbodies. The proposed flow map outlines ways to improve agricultural phosphorus use, increase waste usage as fertilizer, reduce animal products to lower phosphorus requirements, and remove phosphorus from water to prevent eutrophication.

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    FINAL Phosphate Flow Map

    Uploaded by

    Samuel Iliffe
    The document presents the U.K. Phosphorus Flow Map, which shows the amount of phosphorus entering the U.K. each year and where it travels through the system. It shows that 185kt of phosphorus is imported annually, with 89.5kt ending up in crops and fodder, 26kt in waste, and 33.3kt in waterbodies. The proposed flow map outlines ways to improve agricultural phosphorus use, increase waste usage as fertilizer, reduce animal products to lower phosphorus requirements, and remove phosphorus from water to prevent eutrophication.

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    U.K.

    Phosphorus KEY:

    Flow Map
    (Current) amount of phosphorus

    The Phosphorus Flow Map


    shows the amount of
    phosphorus that enters Animals
    the U.K. each year and
    where it travels through
    the system.
    Total
    exports
    Food & feed
    Waste
    Incineration /
    landfill

    Total
    185kt Crops & Wastewater
    Imports Agricultural Humans Waterbodies
    Fertiliser Fodder
    land treatment

    Non - food
    applications

    Where the
    phosphorus ends up
    each year: 89.5kt/
    yr

    26kt/ 33.3kt/
    22kt/ yr
    13.5kt/ yr yr
    yr
    U.K. Phosphorus (P)
    Flow Map
    (Proposed)
    Reducing Animal Products
    Food & feed
    For the same nutrition
    meat and fish require more
    Crops & P use than vegetables. By
    Fodder Animals
    reducing the consumption of
    meat products we can reduce
    Improving Agricultural P our phosphorus requirement.
    Use

    Farmers have been told


    for decades to use more P
    than needed for ‘safety’,
    Agricultural Humans
    leaving a large supply in
    land
    the soil known as Legacy
    P. They could immediately Increased Use of waste as
    stop use of P fertiliser fertiliser
    and there would be no
    significant change in crop Wastewater Waste in the form of sludge
    yield for several years, treatment Waste and Struvite, a mineral
    depending on the amount of Non - food formed in waste management,
    Fertiliser applications
    Legacy P present. can both be used as
    fertilisers containing P.
    Struvite could be used on a
    larger scale.

    Waterbodies

    Compost / other
    disposal
    Removing P from Water

    The most pressing issue


    of the current flow is
    the loss of P into slow
    moving waters, which can Made with support from:
    lead to eutrophication.
    Phosfarm tackles this issue
    by valorising the algal
    blooms.

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