Energy Magazine November 2014 | Page 38

WASTE MANAGEMENT
huge areas of nothing but maize monocultures ,” Kenneth Richter from Friends of the Earth writes . “ Maize is an industrial crop high on artificial inputs such as pesticides and fertilizer ; it is also making soils particularly prone to erosion and , as a result , flooding . Land used for maize crops is also particularly void of wildlife . Birdlife International has warned that the maize expansion is a serious threat to many bird species .” And while biogas is already well established in Europe , the European

‘ Maize is an industrial crop high on artificial inputs such as pesticides and fertilizer ; it is also making soils particularly prone to erosion and , as a result , flooding ’

Flooding due to biocrop mismanagement