We have, based on developments happened and the insights we have obtained during the implementation of the SYNECO project in Malta, co-authored two policy briefs. These outlines our recommendations to policy makers for improving the catastrophic situation in Malta regarding the current livestock manure management, shortly characterised by public support to farmers for handing over their manure to treatment in public wastewater treatment facilties, that, without having capacity for that, lead the liquid fraction untreated into the Mediterranean Sea, and compost the solids, resulting in huge greenhouse gas emissions - practices that from all policy perspectives are unacceptable, results in EU's highest nitrate content in the drinking water, deteriorating soil qualities, besides huge social costs also harming crop farmers economy, besides serious EU sanctions on Malta for non-compliance.

Our policy brief on nutrient recycling potentials explains the perspectives for replacing expensive, imported and fossil based fertilisers with recycled nutrients from livestock manures. The policy brief on soil carbon sequestration clarify how a change to nutrient recycling via bio-based fertiliser production and use would benefit the and restore soil qualities.