{"id":6086,"date":"2019-10-23T09:36:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T06:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6086"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:37","slug":"changing-the-approach-turning-nitrogen-pollution-into-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/23\/changing-the-approach-turning-nitrogen-pollution-into-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing The Approach: Turning Nitrogen Pollution Into Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UN New<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Waste\nis money. At least that\u2019s what Mark Sutton of the United Kindgom Centre for\nEcology &amp; Hydrology wants policymakers to understand. Sutton, who has\nstudied nitrogen pollution for more than three decades, is convinced that there\nis a way to harvest emitted nitrogen to be reused by farmers as nitrogen\nfertilizer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nitrogen\npollution\u2014which Sutton calls the \u201cgodfather of pollution,\u201d as you can\u2019t see it\nas you can the results\u2014is a major challenge for the 21st century, as it\ncontaminates the air, water and land, making it difficult to breathe and\naltering plant growth. To reduce nitrogen pollution as part of the circular\neconomy, Sutton advocates that we reuse old gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Where is Nitrogen found?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nitrogen\n(N2) is all around us. Over 78 per cent of our atmosphere is made of nitrogen,\nit\u2019s the reason the sky is blue and the earth is stable to live in. (If there\nwas only oxygen everything would be on fire.) Nitrogen is a harmless and\nchemically unreactive gas but if combined with other gases it becomes usable.\nFor example, joined with hydrogen (H2) we get ammonia NH3, which is the raw material\nfor most nitrogen fertilizers. However, ammonia is a major cause of\neutrophication and affects biodiversity. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/changing-approach-turning-nitrogen-pollution-money\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN New Waste is money. At least that\u2019s what Mark Sutton of the United Kindgom Centre for Ecology &amp; Hydrology wants policymakers to understand. Sutton, who has studied nitrogen&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}