Urankhaich Batsukh, MSc student of Environmental Economics and Management, won the Global sustainability award at SLU Ultuna’s Thesis Day 2022, with the title “The role of business intermediaries to advance circular bioeconomy”.
The aim of the study was to investigate the role of business intermediaries in recycling plant-essential nutrients from wastewater. The empirical context is the implementation of nutrient recycling from wastewater for agricultural applications in Sweden. Since many firms specialized in the field, a multi-case study approach was conducted on Biototal, C-Green, Easymining, Ekobalans, Lantmännen, and LRF. The data was collected from six-semi structured interviews with secondary data.
Jury’s motivation: With a tangible pitch about an urgent and very important subject, the jury was immediately captured and further intrigued by the scope of the described project. The approach is both novel, and scalable – and a successful method can potentially be implemented at a local, as well as at a global level. The field of study and this particular challenge is highly relevant as we need to find sustainable methods and clever ways of reusing waste in a circular ecosystem.
Urankhaich was co-supervised by Per-Anders Langendahl (Dept. of Economics) and Jennifer McConville (Dept. of Energy and Technology).
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