Source:  NCSU COLLEGE OF AG & LIFE SCIENCES, 7/26/21


A believer in fresh perspectives and sustainable biological solutions, Victoria Augoustides has been the lead researcher on a project to add value and remediate waste products of pine and swine production in North Carolina.

Pine bark and hog waste: They seem like an unlikely pair, but a rising NC State University senior is working to find a way to bring them together to provide environmentally sound solutions to animal waste issues.

Working with Professor Praveen Kolar of the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Victoria Augoustides is researching the possibilities of using biochar made from pine bark – a readily available byproduct of the forestry industry – to clean wastewater created when hog farmers flush waste from their barns and empty the wastewater into treatment ponds called lagoons.

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