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The director of the Galician Agency for Innovation (Gain), Patricia Argerey, visited Edafotec on 24/11/2020, which is developing with the support of the Xunta an innovation project recognized with the Seal of Excellence of the European Commission. Edafotec was a beneficiary of the two types of grants co-financed by the Feder Galicia 2014-2020 program, which aims to promote the participation of Galician entities in the Horizon 2020 program. Edafotec will carry out the BtoGsoils project, an innovation initiative that offers a cutting-edge technology based on the combination of custom-made artificial soils with local bacteria and biochar to solve soil contamination problems in industrial areas. This solution, which is highly competitive because it is based on nature, is environmentally friendly, durable and involves cost savings, received the seal of excellence of the SME Instrument Phase 2 of H2020. Press release from the Xunta de Galicia...

25 November, 2020

EDAFOTEC has been invited once again to participate in the MINNOVATION Mining Forum, organised by the Sonora Mining Cluster (Mexico), which will be held between 25 and 27 November. The conference will focus on Mine Closure and Circular Economy. The director of EDAFOTEC will share the conference with Professor Nieto from the University of Huelva and scientific advisor to EDAFOTEC, and Olga Briseño from Black to Green, EDAFOTEC's commercial partner in Mexico.  ...

16 November, 2020

EDAFOTEC, as a company concerned with the evolution of soils as a way of supporting life, supports the initiative before UNESCO for the creation of the Ortegal Geopark (https://proxecto.xeoparquecaboortegal.gal). A Geopark is a territory that has a geological heritage of international importance and a high value for the knowledge of the history of the Earth. Geoparks are also management figures that seek to conserve, disseminate and enhance the value of geological richness as a basis for the sustainable development of the areas where it is located. The proposal of this new geopark covers around 630 km2 of territory and slightly more than 28,000 inhabitants distributed in 57 municipalities and 1,211 entities of population that, in good part, are part of the so-called Geological Complex of Cape Ortegal, widely studied by specialized science since the mid-twentieth century....

14 October, 2020

On August 22nd the companies CIEMAM and EDAFOTEC signed a collaboration agreement with a perspective of collaborating for an indefinite period in activities related to mine closure. CIEMAM is a private company that aims, among other things, to incorporate the communities within the area of influence of the mining sites into the mining activity, with the training of community members in activities related to mining and complementary services, carrying out Closure and Post Closure activities that lead to the recovery of areas worked by mining, as well as training future businessmen, professionals and/or technicians in this specialty. EDAFOTEC SAC, a company founded in Lima in 2016, also of private capital, part of the Spanish parent company EDAFOTEC SL and part of Peruvian partners, is constituted from the extensive experience of its partners in the field of research on contaminated and degraded soils, environmental consulting and geotechnical works....

11 September, 2020

Edafotec incorporates Alejandro López-Cortijo as an advisor to the Consulting Board, to determine the alignment of EDAFOTEC´s projects with the EU Green Taxonomy thus turning her clients’ investments to green financing”. What is it the UE Green Taxonomy A list of economic activities with performance criteria for their contribution to six environmental objectives, while ensuring they do not harm significantly any other of the environmental objectives. It is not a standard or alabel; It does not replace ESG risk management, it complements it; It does not assesscompanies but theiractivities. The six environmental objectives: Climate change mitigation Climate change adaptation Sustainable use and protection of water and marine resources Transition to circular economy Pollution prevention and control Protection and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems Most investment funds have established green investment quota. However, it is not easy to find projects of this nature. In other words, the supply of capital...

09 July, 2020

EDAFOTEC has been awarded with the Seal of Excellence for its proposal presented to the call H2020-EIC-SME Inst-2018-2020, for its project focused in decontamination of industrial soils with artificial soils. This means that our proposal has been scored as a high-quality project proposal in a highly competitive evaluation process, and the  proposal is recommended for funding by other sources. For a micro SME, like EDAFOTEC, this is a strong support. We have presented our first individual proposal in our history to the European Research Framework Programme, quite a complex process. Congratulation to our competence who has passed to the next phase. We are preparing already for the next call....

30 June, 2020

On the occasion of the start of the processing of the Climate Change and Energy Transition Act, in EDAFOTEC we would like to make the following comments. To limit global warming below catastrophic levels, significant reductions in emissions are essential but no sufficient. We must also capture and safely store billions of tons of CO2 in the next decades. To do that we will need carbon sinks. Carbon sinks are fundamentally different from emission reductions. Today's easily available, scalable nature-based technologies include - Carbon forestry - Soil Organic carbon - Biochar Few carbon markets and governments today distinguish carbon sinks from emission reduction projects (e.g. renewable energy). In addition, existing schemes are often vague about the longevity of carbon sequestration. Many of the existing markets are currently over-supplied and require additionality, which is relevant in the world of offsets, but not for negative emission technologies (NET), such as biocoals. EDAFOTEC, has been...

21 May, 2020

Every year on February 2, World Wetlands Day is celebrated to commemorate the date of the signing of the Ramsar Convention, in the Iranian city of that name on February 2, 1971. Wetlands are the most productive ecosystems in the world and also the most threatened. The use of artificial wetlands for the treatment of contaminated water can emulate the natural processes characteristic of these ecosystems, reducing the impact of human activities on the environment and mitigating the effects of climate change. Artificial Wetlands are systems designed to reproduce the processes of pollutant removal by imitating the processes that take place in natural wetlands. EDAFOTEC designs wetlands with the joint action of artificial soils made with the area's own waste, within the framework of the Circular Economy. Our experience in the design of these systems both in the mining and in the industrial sector has allowed the treatment...

07 February, 2020

EDAFOTEC SAC, a member of Edafotec in Peru, organized last November 14 in the College of Engineers of Peru (San Isidro, Lima) a technical conference related to the subject of acid water treatment using the DAS system. Special guest of the conference was José Miguel Nieto Liñán, Professor of Mineralogy in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Huelva and member of the scientific committee of EDAFOTEC. Nieto's presentation described the innovative DAS solution, developed and licensed by the University's Department of Earth Sciences. In May 2019, the University assigned the know-how of the patent to the company Edafotec Suelos a la Carta.  The objective of this patent is the elimination of the high metallic loads within the acid waters that constantly flow in the mining operations, always in an economically viable way. For this, it uses a reactive and permeable filler material at the...

04 December, 2019

Edafotec has participated in the project "Application of new Micotecnosols and mycorrhiza-forming fungi to the bioremediation of soils disturbed and contaminated by slate mining for their rehabilitation as productive ecosystems (MICOTECNOSOLES II)" funded by the Galician Innovation Agency (GAIN) and co-financed by the European Fund for Rural Development within the Conecta Pyme 2016 Program. The project started on February 10, 2016 and finished on November 30, 2018. The main objective of the MICOTECNOSOLES II project has been the design and production of new artificial soils to be applied in the rehabilitation of heaps affected by slate mining in Galicia and the aggregation of different species of Mycorrhizal Fungi (Mycorrhizoremediation) with special attention to the recovery of the productive use of soils. The consortium has been formed by 4 SMEs: Hifas da Terra, Centro de Valorización Ambiental del Norte, Edafotec Suelos a la Carta and Compañía Gallega de Silvicultores....

03 December, 2019