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Membership of the Irish Nutrient Sustainability Platform offers an opportunity to be part of a diverse range of stakeholders from across the waste value chain, both nationally and internationally.

The Platform will:

  • Be stakeholder-led and driven;
  • Implement Circular and Bioeconomy endeavours on the island of Ireland, and embed the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals;
  • Drive forward the sustainable use and recovery of nutrients, and other co-recoverable value-added materials from waste streams;
  • Nurture the development of stakeholder-led research projects;
  • Horizon scan for current and future policy, technology and research challenges and opportunities;
  • Offer a forum for dialogue on proposals for policies, regulation and actions to support sustainability adoption across the island of Ireland;
  • Act as an information exchange hub to facilitate networking, collaboration, technology transfer, knowledge sharing, and dissemination of current best-practice via ‘case-study’ examples, technological innovation and application;
  • Lobby and co-ordinate information sharing both nationally and internationally via existing networks with cognate platforms globally and
  • Raise awareness in non-allied organisations and to wider society in relation to the critical importance of nutrient resource efficiency and sustainable development.
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Towards a bio-based all-island economy: urban biowaste conversion to carboxylates, nutrient products and renewable energy

In 2022, the EPA granted research funding to the University of Galway and Queen’s University Belfast to look at current urban biowaste processing systems across the island of Ireland to identify areas where valorisation of urban biowaste could result in the development of new value chains and enable a more sustainable system North and South.

The core areas of research within this project are:

  • to develop a stakeholder-led transformative change model for urban biowaste sustainability on the island of Ireland,
  • to demonstrate the recovery of carboxylate platform chemicals, nutrients and biogas from urban biowaste and their valorisation to high value-added products as an appropriate technological cascade to enable system-wide change towards Irish urban biowaste sustainability
  • to develop an enhanced support capacity, through the Irish Nutrient Sustainability Platform to develop and implement urban biowaste conversion project across Irish cities and towns, North and South.

 

If you have any queries on the project, or would like to get involved, please contact nutrientsustainability@qub.ac.uk