The Bioboost Fertiliser Story - Successful Biosolids Beneficial Reuse

For the last 17 years New Plymouth District Council has been selling “Bioboost® Fertiliser”, the thermally dried biosolid produced at the New Plymouth Wastewater Treatment Plant, to the public via its distributor Bioboost Ltd. NPDC has met its 100% biosolid beneficial reuse KPI target on a consistent basis.

This paper tells the Bioboost® story and explores the factors that have made Bioboost® successful, namely product quality, compliance with and understanding of the regulations and good marketing. But the story does not end there. Our thermal dryer is at the end of its useful life and requires replacement. We will discuss the options considered for this replacement and why we have chosen to replace it with another single line drum dryer and to continue the production of Bioboost®. Now that we have made that decision we are looking to the future, so the paper concludes with upcoming risks and challenges and a call to work collaboratively towards the promotion of the fantastic product that is biosolid fertilizer