26 Apr 2024
Follow Hilary Hall’s Churchill Fellowship travel blog
RMCG Senior Consultant Hilary Hall is travelling throughout Europe from April to June 2024 to investigate technology and policy approaches that enhance the beneficial use of biosolids.
Hilary’s Fellowship from the Winston Churchill Trust (Australia) will focus on biosolids, a by-product of sewage treatment and a valuable source of nutrients, organic matter and beneficial microbes for our soils.
Biosolids are an excellent example of circular resources, however this circularity is threatened by contamination from chemicals used in our food, clothing, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Solving this problem will take a multilateral approach, including government policy, environmental regulation, source control and technology solutions.
Hilary hopes her learnings contribute to better outcomes for biosolids management in Australia, improving resource recovery for the benefit of water utilities, farmers and communities.
A Churchill Fellowship offers Australian citizens and permanent residents a life-changing opportunity to travel overseas for four to eight weeks to learn more about a topic or issue that they are passionate about. You can read more about Hilary’s Fellowship or see this recent article from the Australian Water Association.
Follow Hilary’s blog below to receive the latest updates from her travels.
26 April 2024: Welcome!
Welcome to my biosolids travel blog. As I undertake my Fellowship, I’ll share a few posts about my journey throughout Europe and the UK, as I seek to understand biosolids treatment, regulation and use in this part of the world.
I’m looking forward to learning about different regulatory approaches, and what biosolids problems they have (and haven’t!) solved.
Map and itinerary
