In 2013 the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency established new suggested limits for cadmium in biofertilizer. Some biogas producers have already stated that they will have difficulty to cope with the new suggested limits. This has started a conflict between the environmental goals “Giftfri miljö” and “God bebyggd miljö”. In this study six biogas plants has been studied to see how their biofertilizer relate to the suggested limits. They were selected according to their location and the size of their foodstuff substrate. The results demonstrate that the problem is associated with high cadmium concentrations in imported foodstuffs. By influencing the Public Procurement Act, Swedish foodstuff could be favored and the cadmium content decreases in the biofertilizer. The result demonstrates that Linköping is the facility that is least able to cope with the suggested limits and Helsingborg is the facility that has the best potential. The main conclusion of this study is that EU must work together to achieve the goals that the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency wants to achieve. If EU is working together to improve the Public Procurement Act, stricter limits for cadmium concentration in foodstuffs may be established and thus the cadmium concentration in foodstuff would be reduced.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hh-26056 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Blomster, Cecilia, Cespedes, Victoria |
| Publisher | Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för ekonomi och teknik (SET), Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för ekonomi och teknik (SET) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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